President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pose outside the St. John Paul II National Shrine June 2 in Washington, the 41st anniversary of beginning of pope's 1979 historic visit to Poland. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner)
Some parishioners at St. Patrick Catholic Community in Scottsdale, Arizona, are raising objections after two members of the parish staff, former priest Kevin McGloin and inactive priest John Konicek, were fired. McGloin served the parish as the director of liturgy and Christian formation, and Konicek was director of adult formation and parish spirituality.
When the Rochester Diocese became the first in New York State to file for bankruptcy in September, it didn't come as a surprise to legal experts. With the state passing the Child Victims Act in August, extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse victims, the diocese was served with hundreds of lawsuits alleging abuse, dating back decades.
Reeling under the financial weight of clerical sexual misconduct lawsuits, Rochester joined a list of other dioceses across the country that have also filed for bankruptcy protection.
While not surprising, bankruptcy declarations, say victim advocates and legal scholars, deny victims their day in court, cover up wrongdoings and result in lower settlements.
The presence of the extracontinental population — people from a non-Western Hemispheric region transiting through Latin America — at the border is not new, say experts. Historically, there has been a trickle of migrants from other hemispheres traveling through Mexico to reach the U.S. southern border.
Will Arbery's play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, is being hailed for bringing ultraconservative ideas to the stage with nuance. The dramatic debate between the characters has found favor among some Catholics and the progressive New York audience has showered it with love.
Demacopoulos, a theology professor and co-director of Fordham's Orthodox Christian Studies Center, said there was a liturgical rite for the ordination of women that dates to the fourth century. "My sense is everybody in the room knows, but let me say just in case, there is absolutely no historical doubt whatsoever that the early church had a female diaconate. This is just fundamentally indisputable."
The train lines chosen by the activists feed commuters into London's financial sector. "The protesters were trying to draw attention to the fact that a lot of people, possibly going to work, were participants in an industry which is heavily implicated in fossil fuels," said Mark Dowd, a member of both Christian Climate Action and Extinction Rebellion. "The principal aim was not to inconvenience families and people with children."
