Cardinal Marx offers resignation (Reuters) One of Roman Catholicism’s most influential liberal figures, Germany’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx, has offered to resign as archbishop of Munich, saying he had to share responsibility for the “catastrophe” of sexual abuse by clerics over past decades…
Boston archdiocese to launch first new Catholic school in decades (WGBH) The Boston Archdiocese is launching its first brand new Catholic school in more than half a century. Lumen Verum, which is Latin for “true light,” will combine virtual learning and in-person experiences into what officials at the archdiocese call a “blended learning” experience. There will be no school building and no central, physical classroom…
Catholic couple acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan after years on death row (Christianity Today )The mother of four, along with her disabled husband, Shafqat Emmanuel, was arrested for blasphemy in 2013 and sentenced to death in 2014. Despite both being illiterate, the Catholic couple, surnamed Masih, were convicted of sending blasphemous texts—in English—to Islamic clerics…
Catholic man rescues Jewish menorah (ABC27) Exactly as far away on the calendar as you can get from the Jewish holiday of Chanukah — six months since the last one, six months until the next — a symbol signifying a miracle Jews believe happened thousands of years ago got some modern salvation of its own. And it came at the hands of a Catholic man…
