Speaking of “new media,” the editor of The Catholic Key in Kansas City, Mo., Jack Smith, has a new post on the paper’s blog titled “Facebook Bishops” about bishops who either have sites on the popular social network or have fan clubs set up by other Facebook members.
He notes that his two local prelates, Bishop Robert W. Finn of K.C.-St. Joe, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., have fan clubs on Facebook. He also points out that a whole lot of bishops may not even know they have their own Facebook fan clubs. (I discovered while putting together this post that there’s a relatively new “Goodbye Archbishop Burke” fan club established after the St. Louis prelate was appointed to a high Vatican position in June, and I also saw a fan club for Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta. I also remember seeing a fan club for Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston when he was elevated to the College o...
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Adam and Eve were vegansFrom: cnsblog.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-26 07:35:15
A funny thing about reading the Bible:Â you often find things you did not notice the first 20 or 30 times you read or heard the passage.
My most recent trip back to the Bible, to the beginning of the Bible, was prompted by reading the new document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission , “The Bible and Morality.” Basically, it says that God told Adam and Eve to be strict vegetarians — vegans , in fact – and that it was only after the Great Flood that God told N...
more A unique perspective on the dangers facing childrenFrom: cnsblog.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-25 15:12:03
Thankfully, the issue of clergy sex abuse has all but disappeared from the front pages of our diocesan newspapers. Stories about how dioceses are implementing background checks for parish staff and volunteers or teaching Catholic schoolchildren how to avoid sexual predators are much more frequent than reports of any new incidents of sexual abuse.
But the Florida Catholic in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Fla., recently published an opinion piece by a survivor of clergy sexual abuse th...
more Uncovering secrets of the Holocaust: A story worth being retoldFrom: cnsblog.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-24 11:59:20
Last year, Judith Sudilovsky, CNS correspondent in Jerusalem, reported on the story  of a French priest whose mission has been to uncover the hidden truth of 1.5 million of the Jews murdered during World War II. Since 2001, Father Patrick Desbois and his team of researchers and ballistic experts have found 800 out of an estimated 2,000 mass graves in Ukraine.
His story was so compelling that when Father Desbois came to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, CNS had to tell ...
more Getting ready for the synod on the BibleFrom: cnsblog.wordpress.com
Post Date: 2008-09-24 09:07:11
Many Catholics in the pews don’t realize the significance of next month’s world Synod of Bishops in Rome on the Bible. We’ve been giving it extra attention this summer and fall with numerous articles and a new section of our Web site devoted to the synod .
For instance, you can read Rome bureau chief John Thavis’ examination of why Pope Benedict thinks attention to the Bible is “an area he has long considered crucial and in need of revitalization.” ...
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