by John Freund, CM | Aug 15, 2014 | Church
New leadership for LCWR – The nation’s largest group of religious sisters welcomed a new leader and said goodbye to another Friday. The NCR writes the following….The Leadership Conference of Women Religious held its transfer of leadership Friday afternoon,...
by John Freund, CM | May 25, 2014 | Church
Common Declaration signed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, on Sunday held private talks in Jerusalem and signed a Common Declaration in which they pledged to continue on...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 23, 2014 | Church
The Vatican Insider, among others, reports … “An Irish woman who suffered sex abuse by a priest at the age of 13 talks to “Vatican Insider” about her experience. The Pope has nominated her a member of the Vatican Commission for the for the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 22, 2014 | Church
It has happened 27 times! The United States Catholic Conference blog catalogs each occurrance. “President Obama’s upcoming meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, March 27, marks the 28th time  a sitting U.S. President has met with a pope. The meetings,...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 25, 2014 | Church
The responses to the Vatican questionnaire about on family life reflect a great amount of suffering around the world, the general secretary of the synod has said in an article in the Catholic Herald. As of February 19, about 80 per cent of the world’s bishops’...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 14, 2014 | Church, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Fr Thomas Reese SJ offers an assessment of the UN committee report on the Rights of the Child in his blog. Fr Reese writes: The UN committee report on the Vatican’s role in sexual abuse was a missed opportunity. It could have played an important role in...
