U.S. bishops expected to vote on communion question (The Washington Post) U.S. Catholic bishops next month are expected to take a vote aimed directly at the question of whether pro-abortion rights politicians should receive Communion. The vote will go ahead despite efforts by some bishops who think urging the exclusion of Catholics such as President Biden is not pastoral…
Chinese authorities arrest bishop, priests, seminarians (CNS) Authorities in northern China have arrested a Vatican-appointed Catholic bishop, his seven priests and 10 seminarians in what is seen as part of a renewed crackdown on the underground Catholic Church in the communist country. Ucanews.com reported police arrested 63-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang May 21, a day after they detained the priests and seminarians for allegedly violating the country’s new regulations on religious affairs…
DA says boy was murdered by Catholic priest 50 years ago (CNN) Nearly 50 years after a Massachusetts teenager was murdered, officials announced Monday that a Catholic priest close to the family was responsible for the crime. On Friday, officials were obtaining an arrest warrant for Richard R. Lavigne, but he died that evening in the hospital, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office said in a statement Monday. Lavigne had some physical ailments, Gulluni said at a news conference, and had not been well for a period of time…
Women take to the pulpit in Germany (NCR) The effort is intended to be highly symbolic. Ulrike Göken-Huismann, a 59-year-old theologian and president of the Catholic Women’s Association of Germany (KFD), preached at Mass last Monday in the Church of St. Maximilian in Düsseldorf in western Germany. In fact, she has regularly given homilies at Services of the Word since 1988, which is normal practice throughout the country. But this was different. For the second year in a row, she was one of twelve women in twelve different locations who took part in this May 17 nationwide action called “Preachers’ Day”…
