A prominent atheist blogger says she has converted to Christianity. Leah Libresco made the announcement on Monday on her Patheos blog, “Unequally Yoked.” The blog post, titled “This is my last post for the Patheos Atheist Portal,” details how Libresco came to her decision. She said she struggled with moral law, exploring where it comes from and what’s behind Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
Dolan’s report ‘incompetent’ say Irish Priests
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland issued a very strongly worded statement calling on Ireland’s archbishops and bishops of the priests concerned, “to publicly repudiate this report in the strongest possible terms and to support the priests involved in seeking to restore their reputations”. The Association says Dolan’s report had “effectively destroyed the reputations Read more
Anglicans and Catholics have same theology but different ecclesiology
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Speaking at the Nikaean Club, an ecumenical organisation overseen by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity observed the two communions have the same theology, but a different ecclesiology. Adding that Anglo-Catholicism was so Catholic he wondered what was keeping Anglican clergy in the Church of England. Read more
Vatican juggles communications to use new technologies
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Vatican radio is reducing is use of Short and Medium Wave radio transmissions to most of Europe and the United States, and replace them with new communications technologies. The move, announced by Director General of Vatican Radio, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, is to happen on July 1. Lombardi said newer developments in communications technology meant Read more
Orthodox and Catholics discuss ‘pursuing new approaches together’
Friday, June 8th, 2012A Senior Russian Orthodox bishop has identified ways that the Orthodox and Catholic Churches can work together to respond to the challenges of materialism and consumerism. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made the remarks at a meeting in Moscow with Johannes von Heereman, executive president of Read more
Five questions before you leave the Catholic Church
Friday, June 1st, 2012
1. Are you sure members of the Church hierarchy are worse than anyone else? When people cite the pedophilia scandals as a key reason for abandoning the Church, I worry that they’re setting themselves up for deep disappointment. The fact that priests abused children is an idea so horrific that one can hardly bear to Read more
Inside the Catholic Church
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Archbishop John Dew discusses meeting Pope Benedict XVI, studying horticulture and whether he wished he had a family. You grew up in Waipukurau. Was it a farm upbringing? My Father had a transport company business, but I spent a lot of time on farms. I had cousins who lived on farms and would visit them during Read more
Man leaves NZ$2.7 billion donation to Catholic Church
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012A producer of electronic gates has left assets worth 1.7 billion euros (NZ$2.7 billion) to the Catholic Church in Italy.
The donation in the Italian man’s will includes a majority stake in his company, news reports said yesterday.
“We will continue the work of our benefactor in the interests of FAAC and its employees,” Andrea Moschetti, the lawyer appointed by the Church to manage its assets, was quoted as saying by business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.
Moschetti also ruled out selling the Roman Catholic Church’s stake to a group of French minority shareholders who hold 34 per cent of the company.
Read the article...Catholic ire catches Singapore Holy Week dance party promoters off-guard
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012Holy Week might not seem the best time of year to feature scantily-clad nuns in ads promoting a dance party anywhere in the world. It’s probably therefore not surprising that such an event has courted trouble in Singapore, a city famous for its low tolerance of anything that might upset its racially and religiously diverse communities.
The party was advertised with an image of a woman donning a wimple and a revealing piece of black clothing.
Called Escape Chapel, the event was supposed to be the first Asian foray for the organizers of popular British music festival Escape Into The Park, which takes place each year in Swansea, Wales.
“We’ve used this opportunity to express how deeply remorseful we are for the all the upset we’ve caused to the Catholic community in the days leading up to their most holy of weekends,” Creative Insurgence Director Aaghir Yadav said in a statement.
“We never intended to offend or mock the Catholic faith and chapel – and are very sorry for the poor judgment we’ve displayed in our marketing decisions.”
Archbishop Chia Wednesday said the church accepted the apology and that the incident was a reminder “of the need for mutual respect for all religions in our multireligious country.”
Read the article...Census: Even more Catholics in Ireland
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Ireland is still the Catholic country of the English-speaking world reports the Irish Times. Results of the April 2011 census, published Friday, report 84% of Ireland’s population (3.86 million), describe themselves Catholic. The 179,889 increase in Catholics however represents a 2.8% drop from the 2006 figure. The percentage drop is put down to the the fact that Read more