California woman sentenced to prison for threats made toward Catholic school (AP) A California woman who threatened to bomb a Roman Catholic preparatory school for planning to publish same-sex wedding announcements was sentenced Friday to nearly 1 1/2 years in federal prison. Sonia Tabizada, 36, of San Jacinto, was sentenced to time she already has spent in custody for making telephoned threats in May 2019 to Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., according to court records cited by the Riverside Press-Enterprise…
Pope prays for Indonesians injured in cathedral attack (CNA) Pope Francis prayed Sunday for Indonesian Catholics injured in a bombing as they left a Palm Sunday Mass. Speaking before the recitation of the Angelus on March 28, the pope referred to the attack that took place at around 10:30 a.m. local time on Sunday outside Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province…
Pope on Palm Sunday: Let us ask for the grace to be amazed (Vatican News) For the second year in a row, Pope Francis led the celebration of Palm Sunday inside Saint Peter’s Basilica with a limited congregation participating due to the Coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, millions joined the celebration with the customary global television and radio broadcasts and live streaming. In his homily for the occasion, the Holy Father focused his thoughts around the sense of amazement evoked in today’s liturgy and all of Holy Week, since we go from the joy of welcoming Jesus as he enters Jerusalem to the sorrow of seeing him condemned to death and crucified…
Bishop defends giving Communion to Protestants at installation Mass (CNA) A Catholic bishop in Switzerland has defended giving Holy Communion to two Protestant church representatives and a Protestant politician at his installation Mass. Responding to CNA’s request for comment, Bishop Joseph Bonnemain’s office offered a short statement March 22, pointing to Canon 844 §4 of the Church’s Code of Canon Law. “The implementation of these norms with respect to individual concrete persons during a public celebration takes into account the existing circumstances and the personal attitude of the individual. The media, given privacy considerations, is not the place to comment on such a matter,” the statement said…
Lepanto Institute slams music at Catholic university’s radio station (The New York Post) All hell has broken loose at Seton Hall University, where religious objections have been raised over a student-run radio station playing heavy metal. The Catholic college-owned WSOU – which boasts “the loudest rock in NJ and NY since 1986” – is stoking fire and brimstone from outraged activists who allege its playlist is “blasphemous, openly satanic, promote[s] sacrilege, promote[s] the murder and mutilation of women and children and the slaughter of Christians.” In a move straight out of the 1984 “Footloose” movie playbook, The Lepanto Institute, an arch-conservative lay Catholic organization has gathered hundreds of signatures on a petition demanding the station be silenced…
