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FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
We are not meant to envy the intimacy or intensity of religious life. We are called to imitate it.
FaithInterviews
Nicholas D. Sawicki
Fra’ John Dunlap is one of the few professed religious of the Order of Malta and is the first North American to lead the Order as the lieutenant of the grand master.
FaithFaith in Focus
Jim McDermott
We will all be a lot better off when fewer distinctions are made between us clergy and everyone else.
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth speaks at the Second Assembly of the Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic church in Sydney July 6, 2022. The meeting was disrupted July 6 after more than 60 of the 277 members staged a protest over issues regarding women in the church, including the defeat of a motion to formalize support for the ordination of women as deacons. (CNS photo/Fiona Basile)
FaithNews
Marilyn Rodrigues, Catholic News Service
The agenda for the Second Assembly of Australia’s Plenary Council was disrupted July 6 after more than 60 of the 277 members staged a protest over issues regarding women in the church.
FILE - Archbishop Gregory Aymond conducts the procession to lead a live streamed Easter Mass in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Sunday, April 12, 2020. The FBI has opened a widening investigation into Roman Catholic sex abuse in New Orleans, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them. The FBI declined to comment, as did the Louisiana State Police, which is assisting in the inquiry. The Archdiocese of New Orleans declined to discuss the federal investigation.
FaithNews
Jim Mustian - Associated Press
The F.B.I. has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades.
Michael Rzasa, a Trappist brother, was one of the workers at the Spencer Brewery. (John W. Miller)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
John W. Miller
Belgian-style beers are out and India pale ales rule, so the brothers at St. Joseph‘s Abbey in Massachusetts will need to find other sources of revenue.