A powerful story from The Boston Globe today Tucked into the benches at the Parish of the Incarnation of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the last Sunday in June was a letter written by the Rev James A Field Diagnosed two years earlier with pancreatic cancer he had news to share in Melrose t

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Paul Locatelli SJ a nbsp terrific Jesuit a fine priest a superb administrator longtime president of Santa Clara University and a longtime friend to many editors here at America died today at age 71 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer nbsp Until recently he had been working in a high

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From CNS Revised Vatican norms to cover sex abuse attempted women s ordination Friday July 9 2010 By John Thavis Catholic News Service nbsp VATICAN CITY CNS -- The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors in effect codifying practices that ha

I ve been thinking a lot about Bishop Kevin Dowling lately As you probably have seen nbsp in the past few posts Dowling an outspoken South African bishop gave a frank nbsp talk to a group of lay leaders in Cape Town in June Yesterday a friend sent me a link to his thoughtful address posted on

Bishop Kevin Dowling s hard-hitting talk on the dismantling of Vatican II which I blogged about below nbsp has apparently been expunged from the Independent Catholic News site nbsp Let us know if you find it anywhere else on the web nbsp nbsp Perhaps the Independent website isn t all that i

nbsp Eagle-eyed America readers and church observers will have noticed that two America authors have been selected for leadership roles by Pope Benedict Blase Cupich a frequent contributor to our pages and formerly the bishop of Rapid City S D has been named Bishop of Spokane Washington And

Strong words from Kevin Dowling nbsp C Ss R the Catholic bishop of Rostenburg South Africa nbsp to a group of leading laity in Cape Town on June 1 nbsp He takes as his jumping-off point the Tridentine Mass celebrated by Bishop Edward James Slattery in Washington DC but his point goes bey

John Allen has the story at NCR In the latest chapter of the Vatican rsquo s attempt to come to grips with the sexual abuse crisis the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is expected to release a set of changes to the church rsquo s rules for meting out ecclesiastical discipline against abu