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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
St. Norbert College grads, faculty show support of gay rights in face of Cardinal George - WTAQ News Talk 97.5FM and 1360AM
DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) - Graduates and faculty members at St. Norbert College showed lingering resentment over having Catholic Cardinal Thomas George of Chicago as their commencement speaker.
Many wore rainbow-colored ribbons on their gowns Sunday, in a show of support for gay people.
George was heavily criticized last December when he expressed concerns about the route of Chicago’s annual gay pride parade. He feared that the gay liberation movement would, “morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.”
Monday, May 14, 2012
Philadelphia Archdiocesan lawyer: Church leaders lied to me about secret list
The top lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia said Monday that key aides to Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua lied when they told him they did not know what happened to a secret list of 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children.
Coyne was cautious and appeared weary at times. He was suspended from his job as chief counsel for the archdiocese in March, a few weeks after the secret list came to light, although church officials have declined to discuss the reason. And he had faced a similar line of questioning in February, during a closed-door hearing with the judge and lawyers in the case.
At least four times Monday, he echoed the same response to explain how he ended up with the file — “I was asked to hold onto it” — but he did not explain why he pulled the file this year.
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St. James states it is a “poor parish”
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The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American cable television network which presents Roman Catholic-themed programming. It was founded by Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA in 1980 and began broadcasting on August 15, 1981 from a garage studio at the Our Lady of the Angels monastery in Irondale, Alabama, which Mother Angelica had also founded in 1962.
EWTN originally aired four hours of programming per day; it began broadcasting around the clock in 1987. Shortwave radio station WEWN was established in 1992, and, in 1996, they began broadcasting on AM/FM radio. EWTN also has a presence on Sirius Satellite Radio and offers Spanish language broadcasts on all platforms. High-definition broadcasts began on December 8, 2009.[1] EWTN is a member of the World Catholic Association for Communication.[2][3]
In addition to regular programs such as a live daily Mass from the Our Lady of Angels Chapel (located on the monastery property) and a taped daily praying of the Rosary led by Mother Angelica and other nuns of her order, the Franciscans[4], EWTN presents a variety of daily and weekly news, talk, and educational programs for adults and children. Special programming, such as holiday-specific programming and the recent beatification of Blessed Pope John Paul II, is presented. Mother Angelica herself hosted her own show, Mother Angelica Live until a series of health issues, including her second major stroke, forced her to curtail her schedule. Repeats of the show air as either the Best of Mother Angelica Live or Mother Angelica Live Classics).[5] She leads a cloistered life at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, and rarely appears in any new programmings.
EWTN has occasionally been the subject of criticism for its largely conservative social, political, and theological positions. In 2000, the Holy See ordered an apostolic visitation to investigate the network. Believing that it could possibly endanger the network's independence and rather than risk it being placed under ecclesiastical control, Mother Angelica turned EWTN over to a board of governors composed exclusively of lay people[6], which assured its independence from the Holy See. The current president is Michael P. Warsaw.[7] While the network has trustees, it does not have shareholders or owners. A majority of the network's funding is from viewer donations. Its traditional plea for donations is "Keep us between your gas and electric bill".[8]
Mother Angelica made her profession of vows in 1953. In 1962, she established the Our Lady of the Angels monastery. During the 1970s, she was an in-demand lecturer and produced educational pamphlets and audio and video tapes. She had been a guest on local station WBMG (currently WIAT, Channel 42), and on shows on the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. After she gave an interview on then-Christian station WCFC (Channel 38) in Chicago, she decided she wanted her own network. "I walked in, and it was just a little studio, and I remember standing in the doorway and thinking, 'It doesn't take much to reach the masses'. I just stood there and said to the Lord, 'Lord, I've got to have one of these'".[9]
Mother Angelica purchased satellite space and EWTN began broadcasting on August 15, 1981 with four hours of daily programming, which included her own show, Mother Angelica Live (aired biweekly), a Sunday Mass, and reruns of older Catholic programs such as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living. The remainder of the time was filled with shows produced by dioceses across the country, shows from Protestant sources which Mother Angelica determined were in concert with Catholic teachings, and children's shows such as Joy Junction and The Sunshine Factory. About one-third of programming time consisted of secular content, such as re-runs of The Bill Cosby Show, public domain films, and cooking and western-themed shows. ETWN eventually increased its broadcast schedule to six hours per day and then to eight hours per day by 1986. Secular content was gradually reduced from 1986 to 1988, and satellite distribution was expanded late in 1987, after which EWTN acquired a far more desirable satellite channel and began broadcasting around the clock. At this point, EWTN began broadcasting the praying of the rosary daily basis and added a number of educational shows. In-house production of original programming gradually increased. The Mass became televised daily in 1991 from a chapel on the monastery grounds. Most shows from non-Catholic sources were eliminated and a more theologically conservative image gradually developed.
[edit] Radio
Main article: WEWN
In 1992, EWTN established the largest privately-owned shortwave radio station, WEWN, in the Birmingham area.[citation needed]
In 1999, programs included "Mother Angelica Live" and "Life Is Worth Living" with Fulton J. Sheen. WGSN in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was an affiliate.[10]
In 2004, EWTN announced an agreement with Sirius Satellite Radio which has since merged with XM Radio to become Sirius XM Radio.
[edit] Newspapers
Main article: National Catholic Register
In January 2011, EWTN acquired the National Catholic Register, a newspaper founded in Denver, Colorado in 1924 as a periodical for local Catholics and which became a national publication three years later. EWTN officially assumed total control on February 1.[11]
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Shake-up in leadership of Pontifical Irish College in Rome : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
The Pontifical Irish College in Rome has announced a shift in leadership, with 3 of the institution’s 4 top officials leaving. The change comes in the wake of an apostolic visitation that saw a need for a stronger commitment to orthodox Catholic instruction.
The Vatican-authorized investigation into Irish seminary training, headed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on New York, emphasized that the intellectual formation of young Irish clerics should be “in full conformity with the Church’s magisterium.” The apostolic visitation reported “a certain tendency, not dominant but nevertheless fairly widespread among priests, religious and laity, to hold theological opinions at variance with the teachings of the magisterium.”
The Pontifical Irish College, established in the 17th century, provides training in Rome for some of Ireland’s most promising young priests and seminarians. Earlier this year a series of reforms were announced for the Irish national seminary at Maynooth. Those changes, designed to encourage more rigorous spiritual formation of candidates for the priesthood, were also introduced as a response to the apostolic visitation.
Shake-up in leadership of Pontifical Irish College in Rome : News Headlines - Catholic Culture
Nun: Catholic official could have quit over abuse - BroadcastNewsroom
Roman Catholic nun testified Thursday that she and two relatives were sexually abused by a priest described by a church leader as "one of the sickest people I ever knew."
The nun said she, her sister and cousin went to the archdiocese in 1991 to report 1970s-era abuse by the Rev. Nicholas Cudemo, and ask that he be removed as a parish pastor. They met with Monsignors James Molloy and Lynn,
Cudemo was allowed to retire in 1996 as a priest in good standing, which made him eligible to say Mass in other dioceses.
The grand jury accused him of sexually molesting 11 girls. He violated one girl with a Communion wafer, let another priest have sex with her and took her for an abortion when he got her pregnant in junior high school, the grand jury said.
Friday, May 11, 2012
World News - Married priests? Ireland's clergy crisis sparks calls for radical reform
American media picks up on Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests.
By Annabel Roberts, NBC News correspondent
LONDON -- A Roman Catholic Church with women cardinals? And priests who are not celibate?
That is the controversial hope of a group of priests who claim to represent the majority of Irish Catholics.
More than 1,000 lay church-goers and priests attended a meeting in Dublin this week to discuss these ideas and others they believe are essential to the survival of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
'A mere trickle'
Their over-riding concern is, given the average age of priests in Ireland is 64, that in just 20 years there will not be enough priests to serve the country's congregations.
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