Cop wins settlement after suspension for praying at abortion clinic (CNA) The city of Louisville, Ky., is paying a local police officer a $75,000 settlement after he was suspended for praying outside an abortion clinic, according to the firm representing him. Officer Matthew Schrenger was off-duty when he stopped to pray with his father on the public sidewalk outside the EMW Women’s Surgical Center nearly a year ago, on Feb. 20, according to the Thomas More Society. Schrenger arrived in the early morning, before the abortion provider opened, as part of 40 Days for Life, an international grassroots campaign dedicated to ending abortion through prayer and fasting…
Pope at Angelus: Find Jesus in those who are close to you (Vatican News) Reflecting on the passage from the Gospel of Luke that tells of how Jesus met with incomprehension and hostility when he gave his first sermon in his home town, Nazareth, Pope Francis invited Christians to believe in good, even when faced with closures and rejection (Lk 4:21-30)…
Dominican priest killed in Vietnam (CNA) Father Giuse (Joseph) Trần Ngọc Thanh, O.P., was killed in a knife attack on Saturday. Fr. Trần was attacked Jan. 29 at a mission of Dak Mot, about 40 miles northwest of Kon Tum. He was hearing confessions before the last Mass of the evening, according to Ordo Praedicatorum on Facebook…
Two Catholic teachers fired over student’s abortion essay (NCR) The Dec. 16, 2021, issue of the student magazine Elevate had just published when Maria Lynch, a faculty journalism adviser at Regis Jesuit High School received an email from Principal Jimmy Tricco. Maria Lynch, a faculty journalism adviser at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, was fired after a student magazine published a pro-choice essay. “Provocative piece for sure, which makes for good conversation,” Tricco wrote in reference to “The Battle for [Our] Bodies,” an opinion essay that a female student at the Catholic school in Aurora, Colorado, had written in favor of abortion rights…
Former Detroit Catholic school converted to affordable housing (AP) Transfiguration Place Apartments in the city’s Campau/Banglatown neighborhood features 19 units and no resident will pay more than 30% of their income in rent, according to the city. Work was announced about a year ago on the 21,500-square-foot (1,997-square-meter) former Transfiguration School. The school had served the community for nearly a century, said Archdiocesan Director of Properties Michael McInerney…
