Catholic Headline News

All headlines from CNA, emphases and comments mine as usual.

New 'orthodox Anglican' diocese forms in western U.S.
Excerpt:

Rev. [Bill] Thompson [rector of All Saints’ Church in Long Beach, CA] charged that the Episcopal Church had crossed “a bridge too far” for his fellow Anglicans in its move away from “the ‘faith once delivered’” and its official approval of “behaviors that are contrary to Scripture.”
"It was time to go,” he told Virtue Online. “We realize it is not without pain. There is a cost to discipleship and many of us are paying that price in litigation and more. But we are called to be faithful to our Lord first and foremost."

Archdiocese of Newark leads the nation in priestly ordinations

"Ten of the [thirteen] ordinands were foreign-born, with three from Colombia, two from Nigeria, and one each from Italy, Ecuador, South Korea, the Dominican Republic and Hungary. Several of the foreign-born priests grew up in the United States."

According to a church historian at Seton Hall, 1/3 of the Catholics in the AD are foreign-born, so this isn't exactly a representative sample... but that's not the point. 13 new priests really is a lot these days - let us thank God for this, and pray for more!

The rest of the article has some more really interesting stats and stories, including one priest who found his vocation through working as a funeral director. Go check it out!

Vatican publishes Compendium to guide Church in China
It's basically a fuller guide to the letter B16 gave them in 2007 (here), addressing some of the more "delicate points" he made.

Two women killed in attack on Catholic church in Nepal
Apparently it is believed to be the work of Hindu extremists. This concerns me because a very good friend of mine, who is Catholic, is in Nepal right now teaching English.

The country has been in some (mild-ish) form of civil war for a while now, but none of it has been directed toward Americans. But if there are attacks targeted against Catholics, the possibility remains that Americans visiting churches could be at risk. Please keep Nathan in your prayers, and all Catholics in Nepal right now.


STILL WAITING... on word from the Alameda County school district about the results from last night's school board meeting. With the 3-hour time difference, hopefully word will be posted on the website by 11am EST. We shall see.

PENDING... I'm on page 4 of 104 of the CA Supreme Court's decision and opinions from yesterday. (104 pages AFTER I shrunk down the size of the text!) This will obviously take a while, but at first glance, the reasoning behind the decision seems really solid and has nothing at all to do with homosexuality outright, just the ability of the people of California to amend their own Constitution. Very interesting stuff. Or maybe I'm just a nerd.
(If you want to struggle through it with me, the links are in my most previous post.)

That's it for today! Stay classy, San Diego.