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Gloria.TV News -- August 30, 2013 She Still Wants to Be a Priest: Chicago nun Vivian Ivantic turned 100 on Wednesday. She’s spent 80 years at the Benedictine St. Scholastica Monastery. According to …More
Gloria.TV News -- August 30, 2013

She Still Wants to Be a Priest: Chicago nun Vivian Ivantic turned 100 on Wednesday. She’s spent 80 years at the Benedictine St. Scholastica Monastery. According to The Chicago Tribune, ever since she was 10 years old, the Sister wanted to become a Catholic … priest. "We need women in church offices," Ivantic told the paper. " And: "I'm waiting for women's ordination.”

First non-Catholic Couple: As of Wednesday ministers from non-Catholic congregations can officiate religious weddings in the Dominican Republic. They belong to three groups: the Christian Church, the Dominican Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Inc. and the Word of Life, Inc. Christian Church. The first non-Catholic wedding celebration in the country was between a 26-year old engineer and a 21-year old woman, officiated by a Jehovah’s Witnesses minister.

There Is No Preference for Catholics: The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has told the London Oratory school, a Catholic boys' comprehensive in Fulham, west London - which admits girls to the sixth-form - that it cannot give preference to pupils whose parents have given at least three years' service to their local parish. The activities which could help a pupil secure a place under the code include reading, serving at the altar, singing in the choir, playing the organ or flower arranging. The school is one of the most oversubscribed in the country.

Mainstream: Yesterday the Apostolic Commissioner of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Capuchin Father Fidenzio Volpi, published a message on the occasion of some final professions that are about to be celebrated. He identifies as one of the central problems of the order a – quote – “certain self-referentiality” and the desire to underline at all costs their own peculiarity. His words seem to be a sign that the Vatican wants to move the former old rite group into the mainstream.
mamecc
God bless everyone ... it's unfortunate that Lucia is not the usual news reporter .... sorry to see her go ... thanks for serving the public for so many years ...
PNeri
New changes? Not bad. Thanks for the news!
JimmyG
Vivian has been brainwashed over the past 45 yrs by the hippie generation, which, like her, is dying out... Shame on her!
RoccoAnthony
Agree..like the news! Hello to Doina and Lucia.
Patrick Le
Where's Lucia?
Hiacynta.
Thanks! 🙂
Abramo
Great news! Thank you very much!
lux et veritas
I must admit, that the new newscaster is easier to understand for the English speaking page. IMHO Thanks for the news.
Demetri
Thanks for the news!