The Canadian cardinal, who serves as the Vatican’s prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, told Canadian bishops the document does not signal “changes to doctrine or to sacramental discipline,” but represents a pastoral approach that takes into consideration “the good of the person,” according to his or her circumstances.
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Cardinals lead re-consecration of Canada to Mary
To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and to mark the 70th anniversary of its consecration to Mary, Canada’s three cardinals led the nation’s bishops in a ceremony Sept. 26 to re-consecrate the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Vatican official condemns discrimination against women in speech to United Nations
The archbishop explained that women are “too often undervalued” and vulnerable to discrimination, not only when they are part of an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority, but for simply being women.
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Catholic groups decry end of special immigration status for Sudan
“This is a cruel and inhumane decision,” said Jeanne Atkinson, CLINIC’s executive director. “There is absolutely no need to send people who are living peacefully, raising their children and contributing to the American economy and society back to a country where their lives could immediately be put at risk.”
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Jesuit in Puerto Rico says hurricane devastation is ‘apocalyptic’
“It’s an avalanche of disasters, one disaster after another disaster.”
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Pope’s sex-abuse advisers look to assist children fathered by priests
Pope Francis’ committee of advisers on protecting children from sexually abusive priests is expanding its workload to include the needs and rights of children fathered by Roman Catholic priests.
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Barbara Blaine, founder of abuse victims group SNAP, dies
Blaine founded SNAP in 1988, years after she was abused as an 8th grader by a Toledo, Ohio, priest who taught at the Catholic school she attended, according to the organization’s website. Her pleas for help to Toledo’s bishop were ignored. The group gained prominence in 2002 after the Boston Globe’s stories on the priest sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church.
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Religious minorities need protection, says top Vatican official
The “revolting reality” of recent wars shows just how urgent it is that the international community act to protect religious minorities in situations of conflict, a top Vatican official told the U.N. General Assembly.
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Mexicans’ response to quake like ‘hopping on a torrent of solidarity’
Thousands of volunteers and rescue squads have flooded Mexico City, where workers, electricians, nurses, students and others work side by side to save the last victims and bring relief to the survivors.
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Cardinal Dolan: Honesty about church’s flaws might win back fallen-away members
The cardinal said while the world is “ever ready to headline the flaws of the church,” the dynamic changes when “her loyal members are more than willing to own up to them.”