Jesuit Father James Martin, author and editor at large of America magazine, proclaims the Gospel at a Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City June 29, 2019. Father Martin assisted the New York-based Tyler Clementi Foundation in contacting U.S. Catholic bishops about signing a statement of support for efforts to stop bullying of LGBT youth. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Jan. 27, 2021 Catholic News Service NEW YORK At least 10 U.S. Catholic bishops have signed a statement supporting the Tyler Clementi Foundation in standing up for at-risk LGBT youth in the United States and speaking out against bullying directed at them.
Papal Biographer Calls for a ‘Reckoning’ Against Pro-Life Catholics
17 Jan 2021
British papal biographer Austen Ivereigh has called for a “reckoning” against pro-life U.S. Catholics, insisting that they enabled the Jan. 6 Capitol violence by refusing to support pro-abortion politicians.
“US Catholic pro-life movement’s hour of shame,” Mr. Ivereigh asserts on Twitter Saturday, “not a single unborn life saved, while enabling a spate of executions.”
It would be interesting to know the source for Ivereigh’s claim that “not a single unborn life” was saved, given the removal of funding for both domestic and foreign abortion providers, the naming of three Constitutional judges whose lasting impact has yet to be seen, and the prevention of radical pro-abortion candidate Hillary Clinton from taking office.
Spiritus Domini.
Rather than produce another full-length article, I shall reply to my interlocutor merely by bullet-points.
• I have received numerous private communications from priests, bishops, and theologians from around the country and from Rome, gratefully affirming the principal points of my essay.
• My assertion that the Pope engaged in no consultation prior to the promulgation of his
motu proprio has been confirmed by officials of the Holy See with whom I have been in contact. Interestingly, Paul VI underscores the wide consultation process he employed in the lead-up to
Ministeria Quaedam.
• Speaking of
Ministeria Quaedam, in case I did not make it clear in my original article, I believe the document was very ill-advised from a number of angles, too many to cite here. However, it was indicative of Paul VI’s proclivity for “polishing brass on a sinking ship.” Further, his seeming suppression of the subdiaconate failed to take into account its place in t
15 Jan 2021
Jesuit Father James Martin wrote this week that a number of Catholic bishops and priests stoked the January 6 Capitol riots by characterizing the Democratic Party as the “party of death,” for which they need to repent.
“Can anyone doubt that the moral calculus proposed by some Christian leaders, including Catholic priests and bishops, framed in the language of pure good versus pure evil, contributed to the presence of so many rioters brandishing overtly Christian symbols as they carried out their violence?” Father Martin wrote in a Jan. 12 article for
America magazine titled “How Catholic Leaders Helped Give Rise to Violence at the U.S. Capitol.”
.Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroy, retiring chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives, is pictured in a May 8, 2017, photo. Retired Rear Adm. Margaret G. Kibben will replace him as next House chaplain and will be the first female chaplain for either chamber. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)
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WASHINGTON (CNS) With the year-end announcement that Jesuit Father Pat Conroy would be retiring as chaplain of the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that for the first time, a woman will take over the post.
In a Dec. 31, 2020, press release, Pelosi announced that Rear Admiral Margaret Grun Kibben would replace Father Conroy, who has served as the 60th House chaplain since 2011.