New Zealand on 'dangerous path' with legalized euthanasia, ethicist says
- Oct 30, 2020
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Return to Mass a concern for European bishops in COVID aftermath
- Sep 29, 2020
In a recent virtual meeting, the heads of European bishops’ conferences discussed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on both the Church and society, highlighting new forms of poverty and reduced numbers at Sunday Masses as key areas of concern.
Priest baptism story offers memo for reformers: Look before you leap
- Aug 25, 2020
Robert K. Merton, a famous American sociologist, was, by all accounts, a smart guy. Among other things, he popularized the expression “law of unintended consequences” to refer to situations when a person does something for one reason, but he or she finds that it produces all sorts of other unexpected results.
Detroit priest’s invalid baptism had ripple effect, archdiocese says
- Aug 24, 2020
The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to contact anyone who may have received invalid sacraments after a priest of the archdiocese learned his own baptism as an infant 30 years ago was invalid.
Vatican says baptisms done with plural pronouns are invalid
- Aug 6, 2020
On Thursday the Vatican issued a response to a question about the validity of baptisms using a modified formula, insisting that any baptisms celebrated with a formula other than the one approved and in the Church’s liturgical books are invalid.
Don’t ‘blackmail’ kids into coming to church, Vatican official says
- Jun 25, 2020
Although he said, “I would never go to war” over the proper age to administer the sacrament of confirmation, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said too often it seems that the sacrament is delayed to “blackmail” young people into continuing to come to church.
Vatican says don’t deny disabled people the sacraments
- Jun 25, 2020
In a set of updated guidelines for catechesis released Thursday, the Vatican weighed in on what has long been a debate among theologians, insisting that the Church’s sacraments are a gift, and as such, they cannot be denied to disabled people.
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