https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/obituaries/jean-louis-tauran-top-vatican-diplomat-is-dead-at-75.html Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a champion of interfaith dialogue as a top Vatican diplomat and the man who announced Pope Francis’s election to the world, died on July 5 in Hartford. He was 75.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/07/19/head-of-vatican-commission-says-contraception-is-intrinsically-wrong/ The leader of a Vatican study commission on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae has said that contraception is “intrinsically wrong”. Humanae Vitae’s 50th anniversary falls next week, on July 25. Although the Vatican has not yet announced plans to mark the anniversary, it has allowed a study group to access the Vatican archives….
https://www.familiesvalued.org/resources/time-to-flourish This new report from Families Valued and the Center for Public Justice explores the topic of time as it relates to family life and family stress.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2018/07/16/scotland-justice-minister-anti-catholicism-as-bad-as-islamophobia-or-anti-semitism/ Anti-Catholicism on the streets of Glasgow is no different from Islamophobia or anti-semitism, according to Scotland’s Justice Minister. Humza Yousaf was responding to the recent attack on a Catholic priest outside his church as a parade by the protestant Orange Order marched nearby.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/can-humanae-vitaes-teachings-change As speculation mounts about a possible revision or reinterpretation of Blessed Paul VI’s landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae to coincide with its 50th anniversary July 25, what kind of changes, if any, would be permissible?
