Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBT workers from discrimination June 15, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News In a 6-3 vote June 15, the Supreme Court said LGBT people are protected from job discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say June 12, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, Racial Justice, World News Catholic activist Martin Gugino long has been anti-war, anti-hunger, anti-violence, when it comes to opposing social ills, but the one “anti” that doesn’t fit the bill is the “antifa” moniker President Donald Trump tried to pin on him in a June 9 tweet, friends say.
State Department report: China among worst offenders of religious freedom June 11, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Top U.S. State Department officials singled out China as one of the world’s worst offenders of religious freedom because it had subjected religious minorities to imprisonment and forced labor.
Newly named St. Louis archbishop shares mom’s advice to him: ‘Don’t get a big head’ June 11, 2020By Rebecca Drake Catholic News Service Filed Under: Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, Feature, Local News, News, World News Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski traveled from Springfield to the St. Louis Archdiocese as its newly named archbishop with this advice from his mother, Jean: “Don’t get a big head.”
Trump tweets he’s ‘honored’ by former nuncio’s letter June 11, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Filed Under: News, World News President Donald Trump said he was “honored” by an open letter from a former Vatican official who claimed that restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were part of a Masonic plot to establish a new world order.
Pope creates fund for workers in Rome struggling in wake of pandemic June 9, 2020By Carol Glatz Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, Vatican, World News With so many people left unemployed or in a precarious position because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis launched a fund aimed specifically at helping people in Rome struggling economically in the wake of the crisis.
Josephites among religious and laity joining ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests June 8, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News “The Catholic voice as a group, as a family needs to be heard,” said Father Cornelius Ejiogu, a member of the Baltimore-based Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, best known as the Josephites.
USCCB, other Catholic groups urge court to protect faith-based foster care June 8, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference and a few Catholic Charities agencies have joined more than 30 other religious groups, states and a group of Congress members urging the Supreme Court to protect Philadelphia’s faith-based foster care.
Activist ordered to pay restitution for naval base damage during protest June 8, 2020By Dennis Sadowski Filed Under: News, World News One of the seven Catholic peace activists convicted on charges related to entering a naval base in southeastern Georgia and symbolically damaging weapons systems will not return to prison for her role in the protest.
Knights ask Catholics to pray novena for national unity, end to racism June 5, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Knights of Columbus, News, Racial Justice, World News The Knights of Columbus called on the nation’s Catholics to participate in a novena beginning June 7 to pray for national unity and an end to racism amid the unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
China makes preaching patriotism compulsory to reopen churches June 4, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Uncategorized, World News Catholics are upset about a directive from China’s communist government asking priests to “preach on patriotism” as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After ‘taking a knee,’ border bishop gets a call from the pope June 4, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News “The Holy Father said that he wanted to congratulate me for the words I am saying,” Bishop Seitz said,
