The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo is scheduled to be made public Friday morning.
The Church’s attempts to defend itself often just cause more damage.
The model for the Catholic Church today is actually the modern authoritarian state. Doctrine and appointments are made at the center, and anyone who wishes to rise to the top knows that the curia must be cultivated . . . Think Kafka.
“Not only liberating a continent, but saving a people — a people who the Nazis had tried to exterminate, millions of whom perished before you were able to get to them — and then you helped preserve the memory.”
Jesuit Father Frederico Lombardi, director of the Vatican Press Office offered a communique which attempts to limit the scope of recent statements.
“The volunteers were here before the government really got in full swing and have remained in waves of activity since Day 1”
The U.S. Embassy chose College St. Pierre because of the Episcopal Church’s efforts to care for the people of Haiti, and to rebuild the country.
Come and see, says Jesus, kicking off his public ministry after his baptism. It’s a statement that’s got more than a little dare in it; more than a little edge. This is the Jesus that our rector Paul and I started referring to as ‘‘the Boyfriend.’’ We used it as a colloquial version of the ancient Christian name of ‘‘Bridegroom’’ for Jesus, but it felt more personal—and funny, if a little disturbing, because that’s how Jesus is.
At. St. Philomena, Father Damien . . . looked out over his flock. They dressed as finely as they could in their circumstances, the men in white shirts and the women in flowing holokus, wrapped around the waist with folds of colorful cloth. Garlands of flowers encircled their necks or were worm as bands on broad-brimmed hats. The bouquets served double duty. . . . Skin eruptions gave off an odor even beneath fresh bandages.