How SCOTUS ruling could affect cases of teachers fired from Catholic school over same-sex marriage (IndyStar) The ruling could hurt the cases of two former guidance counselors at Roncalli High School and a Cathedral High School teacher who are suing the school and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis after being fired over their same-sex marriages…
Another Catholic newspaper folds (The Kansas City Star) The Catholic Key, the newspaper that for half a century covered the 27 counties in northern and western Missouri that comprise the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese, has ceased operations. The diocese — which published the biweekly newspaper — announced the move on its website last week, saying it was part of a restructuring of the communications department…
Conjoined twins successfully separated in operation at Vatican hospital (CNN)A pair of conjoined twin girls with an extremely rare condition have been successfully separated at a hospital in the Vatican City. Ervina and Prefina, aged 2, were joined at the skull before an operation that lasted 18 hours and involved 30 doctors and nurses, according to a press release from the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital published Tuesday…
A family full of vocations (The Catholic Weekly) As a civil engineer Steve Drum saw his job as building bridges between people, today on the eve of his ordination he sees those same bridges connecting people with God. A missionary of Verbum Dei, a new approach to the Christian life founded in 1963, Brother Steve will be ordained a deacon on 19 July at St Charles Borromeo Church at Ryde and after a lifetime of questioning his future is finally sure he is doing what God wanted…
Woman builds shrine to St. Junipero Serra at site of destroyed statue (CNA) After rioters pulled down a statue of St. Junípero Serra in Sacramento on July 4, a local Catholic told CNA that she felt compelled, after prayer and reflection, to clean the spot where the statue once stood, to pray there, and to defend the 18th-century missionary’s legacy. “I know enough about him to know that he was not a bad man, and that he doesn’t deserve the inaccurate histories that were being portrayed in our local media. I’m not going to be silent about that when given an opportunity.” Audrey Ortega told CNA…
