Catholic high school investigating videos of students using racial slurs (The Hartford Courant) Two students at East Catholic High School may face disciplinary action after videos of them using a racial slur on social media a few years ago resurfaced last week.The two clips, which have been shared publicly on several social media platforms and viewed thousands of times over the last few days, show each girl blatantly using the N-word. Both students are white…
Bishops: SCOTUS abortion decision sets “cruel precedent” (USCCB) The Court ruled 5 to 4 to strike down the Louisiana law that requires abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Pro-Life Activities issued the following statement: “Abortion violently ends the life of a child, and often severely harms women. Abortion becomes even more destructive when basic health and safety standards are ignored, and profit margins are prioritized over women’s lives. As Catholics, we condemn abortion as a grave injustice that denies the fundamental human right to life. Yet even as we seek to end the brutality of legalized abortion, we still believe that the women who seek it should not be further harmed and abused by a callous, profit-driven industry…”
Two retired Catholic bishops test positive for COVID (CNA) Amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Texas, four retired clerics, including two bishops, have tested positive at a priests’ retirement home in Houston. “We ask that you please pray for all those impacted by COVID-19, and in particular for all of our priests,” the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston said June 29…
Archbishop leads prayers, rosary after Serra statue vandalism (Catholic San Francisco)About 120 people gathered June 27 with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on a damp Saturday morning to pray the rosary and offer an act of reparation at the former site of Saint Junipero Serra’s statue in Golden Gate Park. “We all know what a great hero Saint Junipero Serra was for us and is for us,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “We’re here to beg God for mercy and for the gift of putting our nation back on track so he is at the center of our lives…”
Prisoner takes vows of poverty, chastity and obedience (CNA) An Italian prisoner, sentenced to 30 years for murder, made vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience on Saturday, in the presence of his bishop. Luigi, 40, wanted to be a priest when he was young, according to Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference. Kids called him ‘Father Luigi’ when he was growing up. But alcohol, drugs, and violence changed the path of his life. In fact, he was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine when, getting into a fist fight, he took a life…
Pete Buttigieg joins faculty at Notre Dame (Notre Dame News) Pete Buttigieg, former South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has been named a 2020-2021 faculty fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS)…
Father, ordained a deacon, joins his son, a priest, in ministry (South Hills Almanac) Ordinations have become something of a family tradition for the Potter family of Mt. Lebanon…
