Barrett nomination turns spotlight on Notre Dame Law School (CNS) If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to sit on the bench of the nation’s highest court and the only sitting justice with a law degree not from Harvard or Yale. Notre Dame Law School, in South Bend, Indiana, is not just Barrett’s past but very much still a part of her life now since she continues to be on its faculty while serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit…
U.S. Archbishop Charles Brown to be nuncio to Philippines (CNS) Pope Francis has named U.S. Archbishop Charles J. Brown as the new nuncio to the Philippines, the Vatican announced Sept. 28. The New York native, who will turn 61 Oct. 13, has been the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Albania since March 2017. In Manila, he succeeds Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, who Pope Francis appointed permanent observer to the United Nations in November 2019…
New casting of Schmalz immigration artwork unveiled (CNS) A new casting of a 3.5-ton bronze sculpture commissioned by the Vatican has made a temporary stop in Washington before it eventually finds a permanent home there. “Angels Unawares” was formally unveiled on a plaza at The Catholic University of America Sept. 27, the church-proclaimed World Day of Migrants and Refugees. This year’s theme, chosen by Pope Francis, is “Forced Like Jesus Christ to Flee…”
Black deacon sees pros, cons, in BLM’s fight for racial justice (CNS) The Black Lives Matter movement “seems to have a small presence here in town,” said Deacon Emmett “Chip” Jones, who is a parishioner at the Church of the Incarnation in Collierville, Tennessee. “The summer heat has largely curtailed them here,” noted the deacon, who owns a small residential and business painting firm…
Commentary: What does it mean to be a ‘good Catholic’? (Chicago Tribune) Roman Catholicism may have a pope who has the ex cathedra power, used rarely, to state that a particular dogma is absolutely and essentially at the core of the faith. But the reality is that the church’s nearly 1.3 billion adherents across the globe have a wide range of personal and often idiosyncratic views about what is most important in the Catholic belief system…
