Religion Briefing
From today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "West Bend woman to seek ordination: ...[Alice M.] Iaquinta issued a statement saying she discerned a call to the priesthood after serving as a pastoral associate and graduating with honors from St. Francis Seminary in St. Francis with a master of divinity degree in May 2006." The Roman Catholic Womenpriests site says Ms. Iaquinta was already "Ordained womandeacon 2007" and is considering "ministering with the married priests of Jesus Our Shepherd parish, Nenno, WI".
Authentic Catholic voice: Must be heard
Henrietta Gomes of the Catholic Herald, Arlington, Virginia, reports in the Catholic Herald, Madison, on an address by Madison's Bishop Morlino at the 18th Annual Summer Institute at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. This year's conference topic was "Marriage and the Family".
Fliss says his ordination as a bishop was a miracle
A.M. Kelley reports in the Superior Catholic Herald. "The second [miracle] is that he was ordained a bishop in Superior on a day in December so mild that there was no snow on the ground."
Judge orders diocese to defend filing
Mark Sauer and Sandi Dolbee in today's San Diego Union-Tribune. "In a rare and blistering decree [8 pp. pdf], a federal judge yesterday ordered Bishop Robert Brom and his attorneys to show why she shouldn't dismiss the Diocese of San Diego's bankruptcy case for failing to exercise 'the financial controls and transparency' required by law."
(via Diogenes at Off the Record)
Ban upheld on ELCA clergy's gay relationships
Tom Heinen. From the Aug. 11, 2007 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."However, Bishop Craig Johnson of Minneapolis kept the possibility of change alive by introducing a resolution that would allow congregations, bishops, regional synodical councils and the national presiding bishop to jointly allow exceptions to the ban case by case." The pastoral version of the death by a thousand cuts.
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