Senator Marco Rubio has called for “common good economics” ahead of a speech on Tuesday regarding Catholic social teaching and the dignity of work, noting the need for a new economic vision to respond to contemporary economic realities. Speaking to CNA in an interview November 4, Senator Rubio (R-FL) said that there needs to be Read more
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All of life should be journey toward God, pope says at memorial Mass
Thursday, November 7th, 2019Jesus invites everyone to always go to him, which, Pope Francis said, also means no longer making life revolve around oneself. “What direction is my journey going? Do I only try to make a good impression, to protect my position, my time and my space or do I go to the Lord?” he asked during Read more
Jimmy Carter says he is “at ease with death” two weeks after being hospitalised
Thursday, November 7th, 2019Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was “at ease with death” while speaking in front of a crowd during a Sunday school service this weekend. The lifelong Baptist appeared in church less than two weeks after being hospitalized for fracturing his pelvis in a fall. The 95-year-old was teaching Sunday school at the Maranatha Read more
Women can be in charge of a parish
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Catholic bishops are not making full use of Church law, says Cardinal Oswald Gracias. Gracias is one the eight-member Council of Cardinals Pope Francis established in 2013 to help with governing the Catholic Church and reforming its central administration. Women may perform most of the roles currently undertaken by men, he maintains. Noting that while Read more
Cardinal denies allegations of financial mismanagement
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, rejects accusations of financial mismanagement that claim he “played and tampered with the money of the poor”. Nearly a month after private documents about a property deal involving the Vatican leaked to the press, Becciu explained his side of the story. The Peter’s Read more
Catholics warn of assisted dying risks in palliative care bill
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Catholic groups in the US are concerned that a key omission in a bill supporting palliative and hospice care could allow federal funds to be used for practices like assisted dying. Last week the US House of Representatives passed the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act by voice vote. The bill funds efforts Read more
McAleese: Church makes women invisible
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Former Irish president Mary McAleese had straight words to say at a conference in Trinity College Dublin on Saturday afternoon. Under the title “The Women The Vatican Couldn’t Silence,” she spoke of asylum seekers, the role of women in the church and cowardly bishops. Beginning with the issue of asylum seekers, but without specifically referring Read more
Biden wishes communion denial had not become media event
Monday, November 4th, 2019
US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden says a priest’s decision to deny him communion because of his views on abortion is “private matter”. He says he wishes the priest (Robert Morey) hadn’t taken the issue to the press. Biden, who is a life-long Catholic, says Morey’s move to inform the press is “not a position Read more
Chinese Catholics barricade themselves in church to prevent demolition
Monday, November 4th, 2019Priests and parishioners have barricaded themselves in a Catholic church in the Chinese province of Hebei. According to reports, the Catholics are attempting to prevent the Chinese government from tearing down the Church. The protest began at 6am Thursday morning at the church in Wu Gao Zhang, part of the Guantao district of Hebei, on Read more