Catholic Online: Laos cancels ordination of Catholic priest
Laos cancelled the ordination of a Catholic priest last week because the church did not follow administrative procedures, a government official said Monday.Soldiers have surrounded a Catholic church in Vientiane to prevent the ordination taking place, Catholic media reported."It is not that the government refuses this ordination. It is a matter of procedure," a foreign ministry spokesman told AFP."They had not informed the concerned authorities...
Catholic Online: Santorum puts the blame in the wrong place
Sometimes the wrong people take offense. Take Sen. Rick Santorum's remarks blaming the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal on liberal attitudes in Boston. "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected," the Pennsylvania Republican wrote in a column for Catholic Online three years ago. "While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in...
Catholic Online: Web Watch
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Catholic Online: CHURCH USES CYBERSPACE TO REACH NEW MARKET
Between the sordid cyberporn and the electrobabble that ooze and echo along the Internet, add a new element: professions of faith and illuminated manuscripts. The Roman Catholic Church is online.Propelled by the public relations bonanza of Pope John Paul II's imminent American visit, the church is sending missionaries into cyberspace, establishing a beachhead in its most otherworldly venue to date.Its mission is to spread a message of salvation. Its target: those who go to...
Catholic Online: Letters to the Editor
Tackling sex scandal proves Boston's grit I would like to respond to what Sen. Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania wrote about Boston and the clergy sex-abuse scandal in a July 2002 column for Catholic Online.I have a very different slant: Boston, to my knowledge, was the first city in this country to address a national problem. With great moral courage, the people in that city identified a horrible crime against innocent children and brought the criminals to justice. Perhaps other...