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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report |
For the first time, prominent Republican state senators on Wednesday put their support behind legislation in Pennsylvania to change the law to allow now-adult victims of child sexual abuse to sue the perpetrators or institutions that did not prevent it when it happened years or decades ago.
Read More“Even as wealthy nations are now vaccinating their populations, many countries in the Global South have no vaccines at all,” Msgr. Miroslaw Wachowski, Undersecretary for Relations with States, said at a recent UN meeting.
Read MoreThe bishops spoke of “the growing polarization of political discourse; the alarming rate of assassinated candidates; entire regions under the yoke of organized crime; the mistreatment of migrants and the militarization of borders; the lack of att…
Read MoreThe initiative includes the recitation of the Rosary at Marian shrines on each day during the month of May.
Read More“We express our deep concern about the recent proliferation in a number of states of legislation seeking to exempt houses of worship and religious gatherings from the reach of regulations and emergency orders,” said the signatories, includi…
Read More“The right to an abortion before viability is not absolute,” the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 9-7 decision. The law, the court ruled, protects “pregnant women and their families from coercion by doctors who advocate aborti…
Read More“These numbers have risen dramatically since 2019 due to a combination of armed conflict, climate change and poverty,” said the International Catholic Migration Commission. “The consequences of such a complex situation have been exace…
Read MoreOfficials in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) demolished 503 homes. “The residents, most of them Catholics, were evicted from their homes and became homeless, although they had legal papers stating they owned the land where they had lived and c…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
I’ll never forget the look in that engineer’s eyes when he interrupted the professor. “Wow,” he exclaimed, “I get it, I get it!” I know what he was feeling because I felt it too. It was as if the final nail in a bridge between islands in my mind had been hammered home. The class […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Archdiocese of Chicago, Associated Press, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Church, Chicago, Church in the US, News, Sexual abuse |
The pastor of a Catholic parish has been asked to step aside following allegations he sexually assaulted a minor 36 years ago, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Wednesday.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Colorado, homotransphobia, LGBT, LGBTQ, News, Transgender |
Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would add “gender identity” and “gender expression” to anti-discrimination statutes as state lawmakers across the country are introducing bills aimed at curbing transgender rights.
Read MoreReading I Acts 8:26-40
The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
“Get up and head south on the road
that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”
So he got up and set out.
Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch,
a court official…
“The number of refugees who will be welcomed this year is far short of what we can do as a country and is not an adequate response to the immense resettlement need,” writes Bishop Mario Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and chairm…
Read More“April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marking the 1915 start of a campaign that resulted in the death of as many as 1.2 million Armenian Christians—victims of mass shootings, death marches to distant camps, torture, assaults, starvation…
Read MoreArthur Perrault, a former military chaplain who fled to Morocco, where he lived for two decades, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for molesting an altar boy.
Read MoreThe bankruptcy judge sided with the local newspaper, whose executive editor said, “In the Church and in other organizations, it is secrecy that perpetuates the abuse of the vulnerable.”
Read MoreThe US Conference of Catholic Bishops also issued a statement following the conviction of Derek Chauvin. “It’s a small start,” said Ralph McCloud, the director of the US bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development. &ldquo…
Read MoreIraq’s Kurdistan Region (map) is semi-autonomous.
Read MoreSome time ago, a married couple with young children reached out and asked if they could come and meet with me. Although I didn’t recognize their names, and they weren’t in our parish database system, I was happy to make some time to sit down and talk w…
Read MoreEven if the term sui generis wasn’t invented for him, the late-Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete was its Platonic ideal. Albacete, who died in 2014, was a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, an astrophysicist, a one-time […]
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