Just in from NCR: “The archdiocese of St. Louis authorized the video recording of a Catholic women’s ordination ceremony that took place in a synagogue last November. It then used the video, along with photographs apparently taken from the video, as evidence to punish a Catholic nun who attended the liturgy, according to several people familiar with the case.” 

The full story, which continues the saga of Louise Lears, a Sister of Charity now under interdict by Archbishop Burke, the newly appointed head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura, is on the NCR site here.

James Martin, SJ

The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.