TCA Podcast, – “Conversations with Consequences,” Episode 111 – Damon Owens Talks Theology Of The Body & Father Mike Schmitz On Bible In A Year Podcast!
With reports of a baby bust despite dreams of a baby boom, Catholic speaker and father of 8 Damon Owens joins Dr. Grazie Christie and Maureen Ferguson with a look at the Theology of the Body and our authentic call to embrace life amid such a bleak secular culture. We also revisit with Father Mike Schmitz as his Bible in a Year podcast is STILL topping the charts! Father Roger Landry also offers an inspiring homily to prepare us for Corpus Christi Sunday. Catch the show every Saturday at 7am ET/5pm ET on EWTN radio!
https://thecatholicassociation.org/podcast/ep-111-damon-owens-talks-theology-of-the-body-father-mike-schmitz-on-bible-in-a-year-podcast/
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1. Clear conscience helped cardinal endure prison, Pell never lost faith before exoneration, By Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times, June 4, 2021, Pg. A1
Cardinal George Pell has weathered travails that would try the faith of Job.
Wrongly convicted of sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s, the former chief financial officer of the Vatican was sentenced to prison in Australia, where he was held in solitary confinement for 404 days before being exonerated in April 2020.
And like Job, Cardinal Pell, who turns 80 on Tuesday, has kept the faith.
“I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I actually believe [God is] the Creator. God is also a judge. And I always regarded that as the most important test. I had to take on these issues. My conscience was clear,” the cardinal told The Washington Times in a video conference interview. “And I never lost the support of my family and my friends. So these things were a greater support to me, even though there was no underestimating the humiliation and the fall from grace that accompany somebody who’s put into solitary confinement in a prison.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/3/a-clear-conscience-helped-cardinal-george-pell-end/
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2. ‘Dead end’: German cardinal offers to quit over church abuse, By Kirsten Grieshaber and Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, June 4, 2021, 8:03 AM
A leading German cardinal and confidante of Pope Francis, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, offered to resign Friday over the Catholic Church’s mishandling of clergy sexual abuse cases, declaring in an extraordinary public gesture that the church had arrived at “a dead end.”
The archdiocese of Munich and Freising, where Marx serves as archbishop, published his resignation letter to the pope online, in multiple languages, and the cardinal said Francis had given him permission to make it public.
“It is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades,” the 67-year-old Marx wrote in the letter. But he also issued a challenge of sorts for his fellow bishops to use the opportunity of the scandal to save the church and reform it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/german-archbishop-offers-to-quit-over-church-abuse-scandals/2021/06/04/765697c8-c51b-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html
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3. Pope names new envoy to Israel, Palestine, By Catholic News Service, June 4, 2021
Pope Francis named Archbishop Adolfo Yllana to be apostolic nuncio to Israel and to Cyprus and apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.
The Vatican announced June 3 the transfer of the 73-year-old native of the Philippines, who had been nuncio to Australia since 2015.
In the Middle East, Archbishop Yllana will succeed Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, who was named nuncio to India in March.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-middle-east/2021/06/pope-names-new-envoy-to-israel-palestine/
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4. Pakistan acquits Christian couple facing death for blasphemy, By Munir Ahmed, Associated Press, June 3, 2021
A Pakistani appeals court on Thursday acquitted a Christian couple sentenced to death on blasphemy charges for allegedly insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, their defense lawyer said.
The appeal of their 2014 death penalty by Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel from the country’s eastern Punjab province had not been heard until now for unexplained reasons, said the lawyer, Saiful Malook. The two were arrested in 2013 and tried on suspicion of sending a blasphemous text message to a local cleric in Punjab.
Then on Thursday, the Lahore High Court overturned the death sentence and ordered the couple released. They had been on death row in two separate prisons, and would be freed after all the paperwork was done, said the lawyer.
https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-religion-ac332e75da3704af594924f54674200c
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5. Archdiocese won’t cooperate with Wisconsin sex abuse probe, By Todd Richmond, Associated Press, June 3, 2021
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is refusing to turn over documents to state investigators who are looking into clergy sexual abuse in Wisconsin’s five Catholic dioceses, warning Attorney General Josh Kaul that the records are sealed and that Kaul lacks the authority to initiate such an investigation.
Kaul, a Democrat, announced the investigation in April, following the lead of officials who have launched similar investigations in 22 other states. Kaul said he wanted to paint the fullest possible picture of sexual abuse that occurred within Wisconsin’s Catholic churches.
The archdiocese on Thursday released a letter its attorney, Frank LoCoco, sent to Kaul on Wednesday. LoCoco wrote that the archdiocese won’t comply with state Department of Justice’s requests for documents about abuse because the records were sealed as part of the archdiocese’s 2012 federal bankruptcy case.
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-religion-16eef1b1d8d424db8fb99f47c96e0dfb
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6. Archbishop Chaput: Some Catholic bishops were “too compliant” with pandemic restrictions, By Catholic News Agency, June 3, 2021, 7:00 PM
The Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia last week said that some Catholic bishops were “too compliant” with state and local restrictions on churches during the recent pandemic.
“If you don’t reach out to people who are lonely and suffering and dying in a time like the pandemic, then you’re not being the Church, and that’s very, very bad for everyone involved,” retired Archbishop Charles Chaput said last Friday on Fox News’ streaming service, Fox Nation.
Chaput was interviewed by Tucker Carlson last Friday on his new book Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living. He said that some Church leaders fought to keep their churches open amid state and local pandemic restrictions, but added that other Catholic bishops were “too compliant.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247881/archbishop-chaput-some-catholic-bishops-were-too-compliant-with-pandemic-restrictions
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