Meghan Markle’s Catholic school – Immaculate Heart Middle School and High School – toasted Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding during an outdoor pre-wedding celebration last week. Markle went to the Los Angeles school from seventh to 12th grade. Read more
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Bollywood actor-producer follows Jesuit’s lead
Monday, May 21st, 2018Bollywood actor-producer Aamir Khan is leading Indian water conservation efforts. He’s helping fight a drought using methods a Swiss-born Jesuit pioneered. Read more
German president, celebrities: churches should share communion
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
The German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, says the Catholic Church should allow Protestants to receive Communion. He offered his opinion at Katholikentag, a Muenster-based conference drawing tens of thousands of Catholics from German-speaking Europe. “Let us seek ways of expressing the common Christian faith by sharing in the Last Supper and Communion. I am sure thousands Read more
Russian Orthodox-Catholic church unity unlikely
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
The prospect of Russian Orthodox-Catholic church unification is unlikely says Russian Orthodox head of foreign relations. This is despite ongoing talks since 2013 between Pope Francis and the spiritual head of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Although the two church leaders agree on many issues, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk says there are some Read more
Complete media ban sought in Cardinal Pell’s court trial
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
A complete media ban in Cardinal George Pell’s upcoming court trials is being sought by prosecutors. The Victorian Department of Public Prosecutions in Australia lodged an application with the Country Court of Victoria for a “super injunction” against media coverage. A decision about the media ban was to be decided yesterday. Pell is accused of Read more
Contemplative nuns receive new instructions
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Contemplative nuns are the subject of new instructions that have been presented at the Vatican. They were presented by Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo who is the secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. “Cor Orans” (“Praying Heart”) provides instructions on how to apply Pope Francis’s 2016 Apostolic Constitution – Read more
Priests, bishops and popes must learn to leave, says Pope
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Priests, bishops and the pope must learn to leave their posts when it becomes necessary, says Pope Francis. He says he prays all bishops follow the example of the Apostle Paul with his obedience to the Holy Spirit and his love for his flock. “I think about myself [in relation to St Paul summoning the Read more
Artificial intelligence a technology in search of a guiding philosophy – Kissinger
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Henry Kissinger, ‘historian and occasional practising statesman,’ has flagged concerns about the effect digital technology is having on humanity. He says “for all its achievements, it runs the risk of turning on itself as its impositions overwhelm its conveniences. “Beyond factual questions (“What is the temperature outside?”), questions about the nature of reality or the Read more
The morality of the global market system questioned
Thursday, May 17th, 2018The morality of the global market system is being evaluated in a new Vatican document. The publication “Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones: Considerations for ethical discernment about some aspects of the current financial-economic system,” is said to be an effort to give more theological weight to Pope Francis’ criticisms that “this economy kills.” The Congregation for Read more
Chilean bishops open to Pope’s proposals
Thursday, May 17th, 2018Chilean bishops say they are open to whatever Pope Francis proposes to overhaul the Chilean church. This includes removing bishops, reforming seminaries and paying financial reparation to victims of a clergy sex abuse and cover-up scandal. Representatives say they are humbled, pained and shamed for their own errors in handling abuse cases. Read more