On the third ballot the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia has elected the the Very Rev. Mark Bourlakas, Dean of the Cathedral, Louisville, KY, to be
Bishop Ahrens spoke powerfully of her experience as a pastor and church leader in the days following the tragic shootings in Newtown. “There’s no one to impress when your heart is broken,” she said. “The cross reveals violence and speaks forgiveness offering new life. The love revealed in the life and witness of Jesus speaks to a peace.”
Today is the 50th wedding anniversary of Ann and Jim Fontaine. Ann has been a Cafe newsblogger for as long as there has been a
Five key Catholic bishops are opposing the newly authorized Violence Against Women Act for fear it will subvert traditional views of marriage and gender. Meanwhile, a new Quinnipiac poll show that most American Catholics think their church is “out of touch.”
Thus said the Lord to me, ‘Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in