Retired nun to plead guilty to embezzling more than $835K(KTLA) A retired nun who worked as a principal of a Catholic elementary school in Torrance has agreed to plead guilty in connection with stealing more than $835,000 in school funds to pay for personal expenses, including gambling trips, federal officials announced Tuesday…
Bishop apologizes to fired LGBT teacher (NCR) After eight years serving as the director of religious education at a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, Margie Winters was fired in 2015 because of her marriage to a woman. Her story is similar to those of a number of other Catholic educators in the U.S., fired because their relationships violate the church’s teaching against same-sex marriage. But on June 4 this year, Winters received something different: a clerical apology for the way she was treated…
Spirituality underpins migrant activism (AP) Faith-based groups working in migrant activism run the gamut from the Tucson Samaritans, which leaves lifesaving caches of water, food and other provisions in the remote wilderness, to a migrant shelter operated by Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona…
Vatican: accusations against Polish bishop groundless (CNA) The Vatican has ruled that accusations of negligence against the president of the Polish bishops’ conference are groundless. A statement published June 8 by the apostolic nunciature in the Polish capital, Warsaw, said that the Vatican had investigated allegations that Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki behaved negligently in two cases of clerical abuse against minors…
‘Signers’ distance themselves from USCCB letter (The Pillar) Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati did not give permission for his name to be added to a letter that urged a discussion of “Eucharistic coherence” be dropped from the USCCB’s June agenda, a spokesman for the archbishop has told The Pillar. Schnurr, listed among the letter’s signers anyway, is one of four bishops to distance himself from the May 13 letter since it became public…
