Home Page

VATICAN CITY – A priest who confesses sexual abuse in the sacrament of penance should be absolved and should generally not be encouraged by the confessor to disclose his acts publicly or to his superiors, a Vatican official said.

A way for members of the archdiocese to prevent more school closings is for the more affluent to lend money interest free for a given amount of time. For example, a person could lend $10,000 for five or 10 years interest free. At the end of that time, at the lender’s request, that amount would be returned. Or the lender might decide, at the time for the loan to be returned to him, simply to donate the sum to the archdiocese to prevent more school closings.

As the wife of a deceased assistant principal, a teacher there for 10 years myself, the mother of two Cardinal Gibbons graduates who received an outstanding preparation for their place in this world and the mother of the cheerleading mascot, who is now Sister Jane Frances, a Nashville Dominican, I say:

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court’s ruling upholding the constitutionality of the phrase “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is a “breath of fresh air from a court system that has too often seemed to be almost allergic to public references to God,” according to the head of the Knights of Columbus.

Mother lauds Ascension, Cardinal Gibbons