Posts Tagged ‘Msgr Charles Pope’

Priests locked out of Facebook for using ‘Father’ title

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

US priests are being locked out of Facebook because they use the title “Father” as part of their name on their personal page. Facebook’s policy bans “titles of any kind” – including doctor, professor or president – from being included in one’s name on a personal page. The banning of prominent Washington priest Msgr Charles Read more

Replace marriage with matrimony, priest argues

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

An American monsignor has proposed that the Catholic Church should drop using the word marriage and replace it with “holy matrimony”. “It is a simple fact that word ‘marriage’ as we have traditionally known it is being redefined in our times,” said Monsignor Charles Pope of Washington archdiocese. “To many in the secular world the Read more