Frank Healy, frontman of the band Travis is attacking Catholic schools. When I first read the headline, I thought there was another school shooting.
The Pope suggests that openly gay clergy cause "new and serious difficulties" in relations between the Roman and Anglican Churches. Since the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual orientation is not a choice, but that homosexuals are called to be celibate, I'd like to see the Church offer up a celibate homosexual as a role model.
The former provost of Catholic University has died. I wonder what their political science department is like.
A Catholic magazine is criticizing "pampered pets," saying the money is better spent helping the Third World poor. No argument here.
The Catholic Church is opposing Chile's first divorce law. Well, actually, they've accepted that divorce will happen. They just want to make it a bit more complicated, trying to add things such as mediation, waiting periods, and "no-divorce" marriages, while ensuring that religious weddings are recognized civilly.
Voice of the Faithful, an organization supporting victims of priest abuse and moving for change in the church had their first meeting in Cincinnati, which has been rocked by sex-abuse scandals, although many of the instances involve Catholic school employees who were not priests.
In the Boston Globe, Mark Oppenheimer write about folk music and the Catholic Church. A priest and liturgist once told me that the early post-Vatican II Catholic Masses had music that sounded like Buffalo Springfield. This column repeats allegations that Vatican II led to the priest sex scandals, that the new Mass allowed in folk music and "counterculture." Which is double-speak for saying that the Church let in a bunch of unshaved, unwashed hippies.
A Missouri priest apologizes to his congregation after he pleaded no contest to a a charge of patronizing prostitution. According to the story, he was welcomed back by many parishioners and it is not yet certain whether or not he will be removed from his parish.
Brooklyn has a new bishop. The diocese of Brooklyn and Queens is described as "the nation's largest and most ethnically diverse Catholic population." Nicholas DiMarzio replaces Thomas Daily, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 and who was tainted by accusations that he covered up priest sexual abuse while an administrator in the Archdiocese of Boston.
The aforementioned Voice of the Faithful tried to place an ad for an upcoming conference, but the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York won't run it.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Luther V. Dye was censured by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct for referencing Catholic school sex abuse scandals when a woman wanted to use money awarded to her child to pay for tuition at a Catholic high school. He also asked a lawyer if he was Jewish. Dye has agreed to retire at the end of the year.
Rev. Dario Echeverri has been negotiating with leaders of the National Liberation Army in an attempt to free hostages in Colombia.
In the Archdiocese of Boston, giving to the annual "Catholic Appeal" ahead of last year's pace. The spin is that people are less angry about scandals and more willing to give now.
A story in the Washington Post traces the changes in the confessional. One thing to note is that the anonymous screen and little rooms that you see on TV and in the movies is not how usually it's done these days.
The Archbishop of Birmingham (England, not Alabama) accuses the BBC of anti-Catholicism.
Archbishop Adam Exner of Vancouver has been threatened outside his window by a mob angry over his stance on homosexuality.
That's all for now.
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