I’m sorry so many of our Catholic faithful feel so burdened by the upcoming changes in the Missal. We should be looking at these changes as opportunities to grow in our faith. Is there any correlation in increased Mass attendance the past 40 years using the current missal, or the singing of some of those...Read More
WARSAW, Poland – Catholic aid workers in Georgia said diplomatic tensions between Russia and Georgia will not help refugees stranded by recent fighting between the two countries.Read More
PHILADELPHIA – Cardinal Justin Rigali thanked the Philadelphia City Council June 14 for voting to rescind a “troubling resolution” that had declared Philadelphia a “pro-choice city.”Read More
VATICAN CITY – The apostolic visitations of four Irish archdioceses, Irish seminaries and religious orders in response to the scandal arising from sexual abuse of minors by clergy officially began Nov. 11, the Vatican said.Read More
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville, Ky., and named Bishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Knoxville, Tenn., to succeed him. The changes were announced June 12 by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Kelly, a Dominican who turns 76 on July 14,...Read More
I wonder if separating one’s faith from one’s work is Catholic. Apparently Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (CR, Oct. 28) thinks it is. He said as a lawyer he would uphold an intrinsic evil (i.e., abortion) if the evil was “constitutional.”Read More
NEW DELHI – Catholic education institutions across India planned to close Aug. 29 to protest the continuing violence against Christians that has left at least 10 people dead in India’s eastern Orissa state.Read More
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives rejected a bill June 6 that would have allowed human cloning but passed legislation the next day that would promote stem-cell research involving the destruction of human embryos.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s doctrinal office has asked the world’s bishops to be vigilant over the activities of a “wayward movement” of members of the Opus Angelorum church association.Read More
DETROIT – Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox will study the June 4 federal appeals court decision blocking Michigan’s Legal Birth Definition Act, and consider an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.Read More