WASHINGTON, D.C., July 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It’s been far from a quiet midsummer in the nation’s capital as President Trump gears up to nominate a Supreme Court justice whose judicial philosophy could have a significant effect on the future of abortion and family issues. The retirement of pro-homosexual and sometimes pro-abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy has led to much media speculation abou
On President Donald Trump’s short list of potential Supreme Court nominees, the candidate sparking the fiercest debate is a self-possessed Chicago U.S. Court of Appeals judge who’s been on the bench less than a year. That lack of judicial experience means former University of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett has a slim record of rulings for a potential Supreme Court nominee. That void of information about her judicial identity is bei
(RNS) — A group of prominent Catholic bishops concluded a two-day fact-finding visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday (July 2), capping an emotional trip that included ministering to migrant children at a detention center who are separated from their parents. But Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said his group came away energized to push elected officials for immigration reform and alternatives to detaining families at the border. Specifically, he suggested the administration replace family detention with “family case management” that includes cooperation from Catholic Charities and other groups.
Vatican City, Jul 3, 2018 / 04:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has named three new auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Chicago, appointing Fr. Ronald Hicks, Fr. Robert G. Casey and Fr. Mark Bartosic to the positions. The July 3 announcement of the priests’ appointments coincided with the news that two of Chicago’s six current auxiliary bishops, George Rassas and Francis Kane, would be retiring. With Hicks, Casey a
Paderborn, Germany, Jul 1, 2018 / 02:22 pm (CNA).- According to a regional newspaper report, Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker of Paderborn has decided to allow Protestant spouses of Catholics living in his diocese to receive holy Communion “in individual cases.” As the newspaper Westfalenblatt reported, the archbishop told his presbyteral council on June 27 that t
Numerous commentators have raised concerns about a proposed bill currently in the California Senate, Assembly Bill 2943. The bill would amend the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act to prohibit “sexual orientation change efforts.” Most discussion of the bill has focused on its potential ban on Bible sales. It seems much more likely that the bill will make religious education pro
(NEWS.VA )During the Consistory, Thursday evening in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square, the Pope will create 14 new cardinals from 11 countries. By Robin Gomes Pope Francis will create 14 new cardinal from 11 countries during the Ordinary Public Consistory in Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica Thursday evening, June 28. The Pope first announced the names of the new cardinals on Sunday, May 20, following his midday “Regina Coeli” prayer and blessing in St. Peter’s Square. The cardinals-designate are from Bolivia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Peru, Madagascar, Mexico and Spain. The Pope explained that the places from where the new cardinals come “expresses the universality of the Church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Wednesday’s sudden news of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the US Supreme Court provoked near-instantaneous responses of fear and anger from Democrat officeholders, left-wing commentators, and pro-abortion activists. Kennedy announced he was resigning earlier today, in a brief letter to President Donald Trump. As a notorious swing vote who helped preserve abortion-on-demand and impose same-sex “marriage” (despite also writing some more conservative decisions on side aspects to both issues), Ken
The first time I ever heard the truth about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., finally exposed as a sexual predator years into his retirement, I thought I was listening to a paranoiac rant. It was the early 2000s, I was attending some earnest panel on religion, and I was accosted by a type who haunts such events — gaunt, intense, with a litany of esoteric grievances. He was a traditionalist Catholic, a figure from the church’s fringes, and he had a lot to say, as
NEW YORK CITY, June 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Fr. James Martin, SJ, cheered his own parish’s publication of a booklet that seeks to further normalize gay sexual activity within the Catholic Church. The “LGBT Catholics and Friends Ministry” at New York City’s St. Ignatius Loyola Church issued “Being LGBT And Catholic,” a slick 32-page collection of brief testimonials about how sexually active g