Serra statue destroyed at state capital (The Sacramento Bee) A statue of Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest who helped to establish the Spanish missions in California, was torn down by protesters in Sacramento’s Capitol Park on Saturday night after a day of marches throughout the city…
Sacramento bishop on destruction of Serra statue (Diocese of Sacramento) On Saturday evening, the statue of St. Junipero Serra was defaced and torn down from its place in Capitol Park. The group’s actions may have been meant to draw attention to the sorrowful, angry memories over California’s past, but this act of vandalism does little to build the future…
Bishop slams Planned Parenthood for ethnic slur (CNA) The Bishop of Brownsville, Texas has criticized Planned Parenthood and pro-choice political organizations in the state for use of anti-Mexican ethnic slur in its campaign against the reelection of pro-life state Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr…
Lourdes faces huge deficit, launches online pilgrimage (Crux) As Europe slowly but steadily re-opens after coronavirus closures, Catholics across the continent are being allowed back to Mass. However, organized groups of pilgrims in large numbers are still a long way off, leading the famed Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes to organize an online pilgrimage and crowdfunding drive to try to make up a $9 million deficit…
Shock: 3rd priest in 10 days commits suicide in India (UCANews) In the third such incident in India in 10 days, a Catholic priest was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his residence in Tuticorin Diocese in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state.Father Xavier Alwin, 36, was found in his room within the premises of a diocesan-run school in Thoothukudi district on July 1. He was a teacher in the school…
