Pelosi on Communion: ‘I can use my own judgment’ (Fox News) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed Catholic bishops who do not believe she should receive Communion due to her views on abortion. “I think I can use my own judgment on that but I’m pleased with what the Vatican put out on that subject. Did you read that?” Pelosi, D-Calif., told a reporter at her weekly press conference…
Gaza’s tiny Catholic community holds together amid air strikes (CNS) The tiny Catholic community in Gaza consists of 133 people — including a baby born in early May. Fewer than 1,100 Christians live in Gaza among the 2 million Muslim Palestinians. Many of the students at the Rosary Sisters school are Muslim. Father Romanelli said the priests and religious have been staying in close contact with their parishioners through phone calls, the internet and WhatsApp. Unfortunately, he said, they “are very used to war…”
Biden inauguration priest resigns post (AP) The Jesuit priest who presided over an inaugural Mass for President Joe Biden has resigned his position as president of Santa Clara University in Northern California, college officials said, after an investigation found he engaged in inappropriate, alcohol-fueled conversations with graduate students…
Inside the Catholic effort to combat LA’s homelessness (Angelus News) From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 contagion, the percentage of those without a roof over their heads in Southern California has soared by double digits, according to government data, topping 60,000 residents in LA County, of whom two-thirds live on the streets of Los Angeles…
Pope Francis faces another German Reformation (The New York Times) For most of the Pope Francis era, the pope himself was the most turbulent figure in Roman Catholicism: dropping rhetorical bombshells, making unexpected gestures and appointments and using his power and influence to reopen debates his predecessors closed. Over the past two years, however, the sources of Catholic turbulence have shifted…
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