Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Hilary of Arles. More Concerned with Catholic Teachings than with Child Abuse USA “Appalled at the now-daily assaults by the liberal media against the Church,” …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Hilary of Arles.
More Concerned with Catholic Teachings than with Child Abuse
USA
“Appalled at the now-daily assaults by the liberal media against the Church,” Alfonse D’Amato, a former United States senator has written a letter to The New York Times defending recent actions taken by American dioceses against abusive priests. “There is no question that certain Catholic clergymen abused children and that certain members of the Church’s hierarchy failed to deal with those abuses properly,” writes D’Amato, who served in the Senate from 1981 to 1999. “But to simply reject out of hand the church’s extensive and intense program to heal and correct suggests the possibility of an anti-Catholic agenda more concerned with Catholic teachings than with child abuse,” he concluded. D’Amato is himself divorced and remarried.
Will a Legionary Preside The Commission?
Vatican
Curial Bishop Brian Farrell may be appointed as the special Vatican “delegate” who will lead a “commission of studies” into the the Legionaries of Christ, Vatican sources have suggested. Farrell is 63 years old, secretary to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, and member of the Legionaries. He is one of the few Legionaries in a senior Vatican position.
Victim of Religious Free Speech
UK
Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Christian street preacher in the UK was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God. Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. Christian campaigners have expressed alarm that the Public Order Act, introduced in 1986 to tackle violent rioters and football hooligans, is being used to curb religious free speech.
The New Colonel Will also be Taking the Oath
Vatican
In the San Damaso Courtyard of the Vatican Apostolic Palace at 5 p.m. on Thursday 6 May, thirty new recruits will be sworn in as members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the presence of members of the Roman Curia, diplomatic representatives, and civil and religious authorities from Switzerland. William Kloter, the new Colonel of the Swiss Guard, will also be taking the oath. The swearing-in ceremony is celebrated every year on 6 May to commemorate the death of the 147 Swiss Guards who died during the Sack of Rome.
More Concerned with Catholic Teachings than with Child Abuse
USA
“Appalled at the now-daily assaults by the liberal media against the Church,” Alfonse D’Amato, a former United States senator has written a letter to The New York Times defending recent actions taken by American dioceses against abusive priests. “There is no question that certain Catholic clergymen abused children and that certain members of the Church’s hierarchy failed to deal with those abuses properly,” writes D’Amato, who served in the Senate from 1981 to 1999. “But to simply reject out of hand the church’s extensive and intense program to heal and correct suggests the possibility of an anti-Catholic agenda more concerned with Catholic teachings than with child abuse,” he concluded. D’Amato is himself divorced and remarried.
Will a Legionary Preside The Commission?
Vatican
Curial Bishop Brian Farrell may be appointed as the special Vatican “delegate” who will lead a “commission of studies” into the the Legionaries of Christ, Vatican sources have suggested. Farrell is 63 years old, secretary to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, and member of the Legionaries. He is one of the few Legionaries in a senior Vatican position.
Victim of Religious Free Speech
UK
Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Christian street preacher in the UK was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God. Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. Christian campaigners have expressed alarm that the Public Order Act, introduced in 1986 to tackle violent rioters and football hooligans, is being used to curb religious free speech.
The New Colonel Will also be Taking the Oath
Vatican
In the San Damaso Courtyard of the Vatican Apostolic Palace at 5 p.m. on Thursday 6 May, thirty new recruits will be sworn in as members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the presence of members of the Roman Curia, diplomatic representatives, and civil and religious authorities from Switzerland. William Kloter, the new Colonel of the Swiss Guard, will also be taking the oath. The swearing-in ceremony is celebrated every year on 6 May to commemorate the death of the 147 Swiss Guards who died during the Sack of Rome.