$20 million lawsuit filed against Catholic school for ‘blackface’ photo (NBC News) Two California students and their parents are suing a private Catholic high school for $20 million, claiming that the boys were forced to withdraw after they were falsely accused of wearing blackface in a photo. The lawsuit says that the students, identified as A.H. and H.H., were actually wearing acne face masks and they were pushed out of St. Francis High School in Mountain View without a proper investigation by school officials…
Polish court acquits activists who put LGBT rainbow on icon (AP) A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted three activists who had been accused of desecration and offending religious feelings for producing and distributing images of a revered Roman Catholic icon altered to include the LGBT rainbow. The posters, which they distributed in the city of Plock in 2019, used rainbows as halos in an image of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus. Their aim was to protest what they considered the hostility of Poland’s influential Catholic Church toward LGBT people…
St. Bonaventure University president dies from COVID complications (CNS) Dennis R. DePerro, the 21st president of St. Bonaventure University, died of COVID-19 complications March 1. He was 62. “Words simply can’t convey the level of devastation our campus community feels right now,” said Joseph Zimmer, who is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Franciscan university in in western New York. He was named acting president in late February while DePerro was in recovery…
Pope ‘delighted’ as Muslim group oversees translation of encyclical (CNA) Pope Francis said on Wednesday that he was “delighted” to learn that a Muslim group had overseen the translation of his latest encyclical into Russian. In a message released by the Holy See press office on March 3, the pope said it was “a beautiful and joyful surprise” to hear that the encyclical Fratelli tutti had been translated into Russian and presented at a cultural center in the capital, Moscow…
