Pope Francis will take on global warming in 2015, with a lengthy speech on human ecology and climate change to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, an address to the United Nations general assembly, and a summit of the world’s main religions, according to the Observer. The Sunday paper reports: The reason for such frenetic activity,…
President Barack Obama today announced the end to over 50 years of non-diplomacy with Cuba, as well as an easing of both trade and travel restrictions. The United States severed diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. While the Soviet Union has fallen, the trade embargo along with its…
Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades attended a mass with Pope Francis on Monday morning. Rhoades was visiting Rome as part of a Saint Mary’s College group for a presentation titled “Voices of Young Catholic Women”, which is set to be delivered to the pope this week. The mass took place in the…
Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades writes in an online Catholic publication that Notre Dame was hasty in its decision to extend employee benefits to same-sex spouses. Two federal courts ruled Indiana’s gay marriage ban earlier this year. The Supreme Court effectively legalized marriage equality in Indiana last week. “Notre Dame believes that the law…
