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Month: June 2015

USCCB Head calls Supreme Court decision "a tragic mistake"

(USCCB) The U.S. Supreme Court decision, June 26, interpreting the U.S. Constitution to require all states to license and recognize same-sex “marriage” “is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The full…
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USCCB Head calls Supreme Court decision "a tragic mistake"

(USCCB) The U.S. Supreme Court decision, June 26, interpreting the U.S. Constitution to require all states to license and recognize same-sex “marriage” “is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The full…
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Pope Francis promulgates Motu Proprio instituting the ‘Secretariat for Communications’

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis promulgated on Saturday, 27 June 2015, a Motu Proprio instituting the Secretariat for Communications and nominating Rev. Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò as Prefect of the new Secretariat. The Motu Proprio establishes that all communications offices will be incorporated under the direction of the new Secretariat for Communications, including the Pontifical Council…
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Pope Francis greets delegation from Ecumenical Patriarch

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday met with a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Batholomew I, which is in Rome for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, which is on Monday. “Your presence at the celebrations of our feast testifies once again to the deep relationship between the sister Churches of Rome…
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Pope Francis promulgates Motu Proprio instituting the ‘Secretariat for Communications’

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis promulgated on Saturday, 27 June 2015, a Motu Proprio instituting the Secretariat for Communications and nominating Rev. Msgr. Dario Edoardo Viganò as Prefect of the new Secretariat. The Motu Proprio establishes that all communications offices will be incorporated under the direction of the new Secretariat for Communications, including the Pontifical Council…
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