Abortion Advocate’s Withdrawal Just the First Step at Notre Dame, Pro-Lifers Say
Student protest to go ahead, despite announcement that Susan Ostermann won’t lead the university’s Asian studies institute.
Student protest to go ahead, despite announcement that Susan Ostermann won’t lead the university’s Asian studies institute.
The prelate prayed the Rosary with students at Notre Dame’s iconic grotto as pressure mounts on the university to reverse its appointment of a pro-abortion professor to lead an academic institute.
Other new chairs were elected for committees related to religious liberty, justice and peace, evangelization and catechesis, and more.
Illinois and Indiana shepherds will join San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on the Advisory Board of Religious Leaders for the commission. Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron are serving on the commission itself.
Around the Fourth of July each year Catholics celebrate Religious Freedom Week. The focus this year was church vandalism, blasphemy laws, and religious persecution around the globe. Bishop Kevin Rhoades, head of the US Bishops committee for Religious Liberty joins us. Then we turn to the Unsung Catholic Heroes of the American Revolution with Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Remarks by Cardinal Mario Grech and Bishop Kevin Rhoades at a Notre Dame conference this week underscored that while some are focused on the ‘how’ of synodality, others are still concerned about its ‘what.’
If it can avoid ‘self-referentiality,’ Bishop Kevin Rhoades believes that the Church’s ongoing synodal process can contribute to the communion needed to evangelize the world.
The faithful, 5,000 strong, launched the National Eucharistic Revival in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.
COMMENTARY: Remembering a colleague and mentor.
“I believe it is wrong for Notre Dame to honor any ‘pro-choice’ public official with the Laetare Medal, even if he/she has other positive accomplishments in public service,” Bishop Kevin Rhodes stated on March 14.
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