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Shareholder action pushes corporations to address key social issues
In advance of upcoming corporate annual meetings, institutional investors, including religious congregations, have filed 250 shareholder resolutions with 163 companies to address important social concerns such as the opioid epidemic.
Knights of Columbus novena underway to pray for success of Vatican summit
In response to the Vatican's summit on child protection and the clerical sexual abuse crisis, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, supreme chaplain, urged their brother Knights and their families to set aside time over a nine-day period to say a "Novena for Repentance, Renewal and Rebuilding."
Experts say Blessed Newman’s vision for education was binding faith, reason
Blessed Newman suggested letting students develop their basic intellectual faculties through the study of medieval subjects such as logic or grammar, and then progress to more specialized forms of knowledge once a unifying foundation has been firmly established.
Cardinal Tobin: New ‘Nostra Aetate’ moment needed from abuse summit
What took place during the Vatican II was "a revolutionary flourishing of a church of synodality, that is, one whose members move together with Christ, along a path guided by the Holy Spirit," Cardinal Tobin said. "I hope we will see this again at the abuse summit."
Cesareo urges greater role for laity in church’s response to abuse
Laypeople must be involved in a "more meaningful and influential role" to help Catholic bishops create "an environment of safety within the church," the chairman of the National Review Board said in an opinion piece published by The Boston Globe.
Colorado dioceses, attorney general launch initiatives to address abuse
Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, on behalf of the bishops of Colorado's three Catholic dioceses, joined Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser at a news conference Feb. 19 to announce several measures to address child sex abuse, including an independent review of records on abuse claims from the three dioceses.
Supreme Court throws out inmate’s death sentence due to mental disability
The court's 6-3 decision Feb. 19 did not return the case to the lower courts as it did two years ago but instead tossed out the lower court's decision to execute Bobby James Moore.
Pipeline struggle reveals value of community to religious congregation
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Feb. 19, 2019, to hear an appeal by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ that their religious freedom was being violated by the construction of the pipeline through their land in Columbia, Pa.
Georgetown University rescinds honorary degree from McCarrick
Georgetown University in Washington is the latest institution to announce it is rescinding an honorary degree it gave to former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2004.
Covington Catholic student sues Washington Post for $250 million
The 38-page suit claims there were "no less than six false and defamatory articles" in the newspaper about the Jan. 18 encounter at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which went viral almost immediately.