Students boycott pro-life assembly at Catholic school (CNA) Students at a Catholic high school in San Francisco staged a walkout last month to protest an all-school assembly which featured a pro-life speaker. Despite the students’ actions, the school’s president defended the talk as “an opportunity to come together in order to learn more about the dignity of human life…”
Pope Francis to visit Cyprus, Greece in December (NCR) Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece next month, the Vatican confirmed on Nov. 5. The Dec. 2-6 trip to the two Mediterranean nations has been long rumored and will mark Francis’ third international journey since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Vatican statement noted that Francis would spend two nights in each country and said a full schedule would be provided in “due course…”
Former coach appeals firing over vaccine (AP) Attorneys for former Washington State coach Nick Rolovich sent a letter to the university appealing his firing for refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine, contending school officials did not conduct a fair process to determine whether he should receive a religious exemption to a state mandate that all state employees must be vaccinated. Attorneys Brian Fahling and Eric Kniffen’s letter to athletic director Pat Chun lays out their appeal of Rolovich’s firing for just cause.The letter says Chun overturned a decision by the university’s Human Resource Services to grant Rolovich a religious exemption to the vaccination mandate. Rolovich has said he is Catholic. The Catholic Church has not prohibited vaccinations against COVID-19…
Pope appoints auxiliary bishop for Pittsburgh (Vatican Press Bulletin) The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Mark A. Eckman, currently pastor of the Resurrection Parish in Pittsburgh, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh (USA) , assigning him the titular See of Sitifi…
A Jesuit, papal connection to Biden’s gift to pope (CNS) While waiting for parishioners to arrive at a cemetery for an All Souls’ Day event Nov. 2, the pastor of a Washington parish grabbed the attention of his spiritual flock with a story about how a rarely seen object from their sacristy, possibly worn by a previous pope, had days earlier ended up in the hands of Pope Francis…
