Following an IRS complaint by a secularist group and a wealth of other criticism, 95 members of the University of Notre Dame faculty have called on Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria to resign from the University’s board. The call comes in response to Jenky’s homily in which he denounced President Obama’s “radical, pro-abortion and extreme Read more
In a message to the 7th world congress on pastoral care of tourists, Pope Benedict has affirmed the value of tourism and supported the horizons it opens. Benedict said that admiring the beauty of other people, cultures and nature, can lead to God and be the occasion of an experience of faith. “Tourism, together with Read more
The leader of a group of US nuns criticised by the Vatican last week is hitting back. Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, insists the group would continue “caring for the least among us on the margins of society.” Campbell said that Network, which works with the LCWR and vocally Read more
Australian Speaker, Peter Slipper, has also been asked to stand down from his role as a priest in the Traditional Anglican Communion. The request comes while investigations continue over Slipper’s alleged mis-use of tax payer money and allegations that Slipper made sexual advances at a male staff member. “It is right for anyone accused of Read more
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria has clarified comments by Bishop Daniel Jenky by saying the bishop was giving current events a historical context and had been taken out of context. Bishop Jenky has come under fire for comparing President Barack Obama to being on “a similar path” as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. In Read more
It is not about the journey the outspoken Irish clergy are taking, and is about the destination, warns Irish Independent’s David Quinn in his weekend column. Quinn says the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) need to ask themselves what if they cannot influence the Vatican over women priests, artificial contraception or in a more general context Read more
A leading German conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany. “Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, told the Passauer Neue Presse. “But Muslims do belong in Germany. As Read more
The celebration of Pope Benedict’s 85th birthday on April 16, makes him the oldest pope for over 100 years; Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 aged 93. The Holy Father told his aides that he wanted “no major celebrations”, the Pope’s personal secretary Georg Gaenswein told the Italian weekly Gente. Benedict was however later joined Read more
According to a University of Chicago study 12% of New Zealanders do not believe in God. The figure compares with 52% of East Germans and less than 1% of Filipinos who also do not believe. However, according to the survey, only 16% of New Zealanders have a strong belief in God, 37% of respondents say Read more
Time magazine has published the list of 100 people to be voted on for The Person of the Year in 2012, and after an Internet vote open to the public, the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, received more than 42,000 votes and is well on the list. Dolan is placed ahead of others Read more