Ideas have consequences, and for decades some very bad ideas have given aid and comfort to predators inside and outside the church.
In the evangelical context, therefore, true accompaniment goes beyond fellowship. It has to do with offering the bread of life.
As it skewers a broad range of subjects, from some politicians’ preoccupation with the size of their hands to 1980s-style anthems of affirmation, the film wins smiles and laughs at a remarkably steady pace.
“When you override nature itself,” Bishop Brennan added, “you don’t respect it.”
Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”
Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese’s own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse.
“The news regarding Archbishop McCarrick was a great shock to our church in Washington. There is understandable anger, both on a personal level due to the charges, but also more broadly at the church,” Cardinal Wuerl said.
In a speech at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, Vice President Mike Pence described the state of religious freedom around the world and the wide variety of attacks it faces.
Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning “urban missionaries” whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets.
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, gave three reasons why religious freedom is important to the Catholic Church in a speech July 30 at a conference on the issue at the Justice Department in Washington.
Sister M. Francis Regis Vagt, who taught at St. Rita Elementary School in Baltimore from 1960-65, died July 28. She was 85.
Father Reginald Whitt, who converted to Catholicism as a student at what was then Loyola College, finally has an assignment in his hometown, in the “healing ministry” of the archdiocesan Tribunal.
