After a barrage of criticism from the Catholic Bishops in the Philippines, fast-food chain McDonalds has scrapped a television commercial. The commercial showed two young children flirting with each, and a young girl asks a boy of the same age if she can be his girlfriend. The boy wasn’t interested and says that “girls are Read more
Kate Middleton has been confirmed as a member of the Church of England. Clarence House announced that Miss Middleton was confirmed on March 10 in a private ceremony. The sacrament of confirmation was celebrated by the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres in a private ceremony. Bishop Chartres will give the address at the April 29 Read more
The bloodshed continues in Ivory Coast. Before the capture of Laurent Gbagbo, Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan asked for prayers for his people. Thousands of Abidjan residents have been driven from their homes by bombing and artillery fire. Food, water, and electricity are hard to find, and a humanitarian disaster looms. In February, Caritas Internationalis Read more
The Vatican is inviting all bloggers to come to Rome, opening a channel for dialogue between them and Church representatives. Vatican Radio outlines the purpose of the meeting to listen to the experiences of those who are actively involved in this arena, to achieve a greater understanding of the needs of that community, to allow Read more
Many of Australia’s Catholic priests don’t believe in crucial church teachings and are critical of their bishops. While most Australian priests find fulfillment in the priesthood, many say they are overworked, poorly managed and feel constrained in their religious vocation by bureaucracy and parish administration. Nearly half of the surveyed priests consider their bishops as Read more
As overnight Internet sensation Rebecca Black’s YouTube video “Friday” approaches 100 million views, the Community Christian church responds with a parody, “Sunday.” Creating a rendition of the “wannabe weekend-party anthem,” and giving it a holy twist, is the mission the Creative Arts Staff at the Community Christian Church gave itself. “Sunday” lyricist Eric Bramlett told The Read more
An unrepentant priest, American Maryknoll father, Roy Bourgeois will not recant for participating in the attempted ordination of a woman and he faces laicisation and explusion from his religious order. “I cannot do it,” said Father Bourgeois, 72. “Rome wants two words from me to make this go away: ‘I recant.’ Those words I cannot Read more
A Jesuit priest has called for the establishment of a General Ecumenical Council to bring all Christian Churches together, and eventually all religions, in order to face together the challenge of the secularisation of society. Fr Michael MacGreil told the Irish Catholic that with the current state of religion in the world and the advance of Read more
The U.S. bishops have been accused by a prominent U.S. theologian of not following their own guidelines in handling disputes between bishops and theologians before issuing a critique of last week of a 2007 book by Elizabeth Johnson. The bishops’ doctrine committee said that Elizabeth Johnson’s book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God” is Read more
Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan has gone into hiding as fighting continues to rock the capital of Ivory Coast. “I am in a hidden place. Violent fighting continues. We can hear massive explosions,” Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan told Fides in a phone interview before being cut off. He was speaking to Fides from the Read more