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CATHOLIC NEWS: Pope announces revamped annulment process focusing on speed, role of local bishops...... PLUS 19 MORE
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   - Pope announces revamped annulment process focusing on speed, role of local bishops...
   - Actress Leah Remini ("King of Queens") leaves Scientology, comes home to the Catholic Church...
   - How about post-Cana counseling as well?
   - 9 things to know and share about the Pope's reform of the annulment process...
   - The upcoming canonization is a reminder that the U.S. is a land of saints...
   - The life of the believer revolves around Jesus Christ...
   - Is extreme wealth inequality just a matter of probability, or is the system rigged?
   - On the trail of the elusive, incredible, mysterious beaked whale...
   - In Pakistan, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary is as popular with Muslims as with Catholics...
   - The Pope’s annulment reform will have several major effects...
   - Blessings during Communion? It's a recent liturgical abuse that needs to go away.....
   - Is “conservative dissent” really brewing inside the Vatican?
   - Reuters analysis reveals "staggering" financial challenges for many Catholic dioceses in U.S...
   - Annulments: The Pope has come down in favour of Cardinal Müller, not Cardinal Marx...
   - Kim Davis is right to fight this despotic and shameful law...
   - Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?
   - The New Yorker: A determined Pope Francis moves to reform a recalcitrant Curia...
   - Can you tell if these popular sayings are from the Bible?
   - Christian friendship becomes impossible if you can't turn the other cheek.....
   - Discerning the thirst for God in the latest Pew Survey...

| Pope announces revamped annulment process focusing on speed, role of local bishops...Posted: In a reformed marriage annulment process Pope Francis has made some significant changes, giving more of a role to the local bishop, dropping automatic appeals, and declaring the process free of charge. Announced Tuesday, the new process is aimed at streamlining the system for granting annulments out of concern “for the salvation of souls” while affirming the longstanding Catholic teaching on marriage indissolubility... |
| Actress Leah Remini ("King of Queens") leaves Scientology, comes home to the Catholic Church...Posted: A few months ago, I was at a taping of the NBC game show “I Can Do That!”, which included dancer/choreographer Cheryl Burke (“Dancing With the Stars”) as a contestant. I was sitting in the green room with Burke’s then-beau, restaurateur J.T. Torregiani, and one of Burke’s friends, former “King of Queens” star Leah Remini... |
| How about post-Cana counseling as well?Posted: A good many Catholics have pointed out that we wouldn't need so many annulments if the marriage preparation process were better. We'd all be better off if the Church did more to make it clear, long before the wedding day, what marriage really means, and if it did more to warn people away from trying to marry people who can't or won't be truly married... |
| 9 things to know and share about the Pope's reform of the annulment process...Posted: How does the annulment process work? This is a complicated subject, but in simplest terms, the rules governing annulments are expressed principally in two documents: the Code of Canon Law, which governs the western Catholic church, and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which governs the eastern Catholic churches. When a man and a woman have divorced... |
| The upcoming canonization is a reminder that the U.S. is a land of saints...Posted: “He is complete mercy, complete love and complete tenderness toward men, even toward the most ungrateful sinners.” Sound like Pope Francis? Close. It is a quote from Junípero Serra, the first saint to be canonized on U.S. soil. The quote comes from one of four existing sermons of the Spanish missionary, recently translated by Rose Marie Beebe for the book “Junípero Serra: California... |
| The life of the believer revolves around Jesus Christ...Posted: The culture and world around us are becoming more and more secular. What that means is the world wants less to do with faith and morals, and is far more interested in rampant individualism, which pretty much allows people to define truth for themselves; and that is called relativism. In such a world, people of faith will experience greater resistance and even persecution... |
| Is extreme wealth inequality just a matter of probability, or is the system rigged?Posted: Is extreme wealth inequality in the U.S. something that government can or should address? The answer depends on how it arises. If everybody has a shot at the top, maybe it's not so bad. If the wealthiest are exploiting some kind of advantage, the system may need fixing. New research suggests that only the latter explanation makes mathematical sense... |
| On the trail of the elusive, incredible, mysterious beaked whale...Posted: The Southern California Bight is a patch of the Pacific Ocean that runs roughly from Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, to Cabo Colnett in Baja California, Mexico. As an oceanographic feature, a bight is a long, gentle curve of coastline that forms a large bay, one so big and subtle that, on a map, it does not draw the eye. But to overlook the Southern California Bight is to miss its lively geography — its offshore islands and deep canyons and wide basins that lead to the plunging edge of the continental shelf... |
| In Pakistan, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary is as popular with Muslims as with Catholics...Posted: A popular pilgrimage to celebrate a Marian feast in Pakistan is as popular with Muslims as with Catholics. "I gave two goats as offerings for St. Mary also revered in the Quran," said Malik Rasheed Mustaq one of the Muslim sponsors for the food for the pilgrims. His gesture was in keeping with the Muslim tradition to offer niyaz (food offered on special religious occasions)... |
| The Pope’s annulment reform will have several major effects...Posted: In his latest reform move, Pope Francis on Tuesday issued two new legal documents, each technically known as a motu proprio, the thrust of which is to make it faster, easier, and less expensive to obtain an annulment. In Catholic parlance, an “annulment” means a ruling by a Church court that a union between a man and a woman... |
| Blessings during Communion? It's a recent liturgical abuse that needs to go away.....Posted: In the Indian subcontinent, annual festivals are held in honor of the god Vishnu and his avatar Krishna. Great, massive wooden carts are built, and an image of Krisha is transported from one temple to another in the city of Puri. Similar processions are made elsewhere. There is competition among shrines as to who can build the biggest and most impressive float for transporting the idol... |
| Is “conservative dissent” really brewing inside the Vatican?Posted: This article from the Washington Post gives a typical progressive slant on Catholic news. The headline suggests that “Conservative Dissent is Brewing Inside the Vatican.” Ho hum. You can guess the tired narrative: Pope Francis is the great reformer who wants to clean up the corrupt Vatican Bank, open communion to divorced and re-married people... |
| Reuters analysis reveals "staggering" financial challenges for many Catholic dioceses in U.S...Posted: When Pope Francis makes his first visit to the United States this month he will face a national Catholic Church whose finances are staggering under a shrinking membership and huge payouts to sex-abuse victims, threatening to undermine its social influence. With the Church still absorbing the roughly $3 billion cost of a clergy sex abuse scandal... |
| Annulments: The Pope has come down in favour of Cardinal Müller, not Cardinal Marx...Posted: This move by the Pope – and a motu proprio has the force of law for the Church – will make a huge difference to people who up to now have suffered greatly under the present dispensation. I am thinking of those, in the United Kingdom, for example, who have been forced to wait up to five years for the process to play out, even though the outcome of that process has been clear from the beginning... |
| Kim Davis is right to fight this despotic and shameful law...Posted: For many years now “gay” activists (who do not speak for every American with same-sex attraction) have spoken extensively of tolerance and called for inclusion, acceptance, etc. They have lamented that they were victims of oppression and discrimination and often appealed to a “live and let live” idea. Yes, it was supposed to be all about tolerance and inclusion... |
| Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?Posted: A reader commented recently that she has a Protestant friend who always refers to St James as “Jesus’ baby brother.” Maybe, and then again maybe not. The early church taught that the “brothers and sisters” of Jesus were his kinsmen from his extended family–most probably the half brothers and sisters from an earlier marriage of Saint Joseph... |
| The New Yorker: A determined Pope Francis moves to reform a recalcitrant Curia...Posted: When you walk in the back entrance to Vatican City, you quickly realize what a small world the center of the Catholic Church is. The hundred-and-nine-acre complex, built largely during the Renaissance, is the spiritual and administrative headquarters of a global institution with 1.2 billion followers. The first building you see is the Santa Marta guesthouse... |
| Can you tell if these popular sayings are from the Bible?Posted: Separating fact from fiction... |
| Christian friendship becomes impossible if you can't turn the other cheek.....Posted: “Repentant sinners can be forgiven of any sin, at any time, on the basis of the life and blood of Christ. That’s the gospel.” That’s a tweet sent by Russell Moore, the head of the Southern Baptist’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He wasn’t just tweeting religious slogans. This one had a point. And the point was that Pope Francis is wrong... |
| Discerning the thirst for God in the latest Pew Survey...Posted: News people love polls. The reason is obvious. If you are a “journalist,” and you don’t want to waste time interviewing people and tracking down leads, and if you are also inclined to use your journalistic clout to agitate for social change that is to your personal prejudice, well then, polls are a gimme, gimme, gimme. Opinions come and go... |


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