YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.
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Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly
Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
Prayer, hospitality, school preparation (or the lack thereof) and more (7 Quick Takes)
I love that the members of my prayer group don’t really offer advice. They simply listen and support and share.
British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past
In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes.
Movie Review: ‘The Protege’
Director Martin Campbell’s sleek yet brutal thriller “The Protege” (Lionsgate) not only depicts the activities of its principal characters, all of them assassins, in unsparing bloody detail. It also presents its own alternate version of morality.
Movie Review: ‘Reminiscence’
Part dystopian adventure, part neo-noir mystery, “Reminiscence” (Warner Bros.) is undone by its own sense of importance.
How to help earthquake victims in Haiti
In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori is encouraging parishes to designate poor box collections or second collections to benefit earthquake victims. Funds collected will go to Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway
Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
What about purgatory?/Do priests forget confessions?
Father Doyle fields questions about purgatory and whether priests forget what is said in the confessional.
Discovering light in the darkness
As evening arrives, that last burst of light can be so vibrant.
Expanding Father Watters’ vision, St. Ignatius Parish will add grades to pre-school
The Jesuit footprint on local education expanded Aug. 19, with the announcement that the Loyola Early Learning Center, an initiative of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore and the Jesuit USA East Province, will open a kindergarten in September, with plans to grow into a PreK-Grade 4 school serving low-income children.
Arlington Bishop: Church has ‘sacred duty’ to speak truth about human person, gender
The topic of transgenderism is discussed routinely in the news, on television shows and in schools.