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Deacon Drake McCalister, a former Pentecostal minister, has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Steubenville. Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton received the letter of approval Nov. 6 and will ordain Deacon McCalister Dec. 19 at Holy Family Church in Steubenville. “Thanks be to God! And a strong sense, a sobering sense of the increased responsibility and accountability that comes with ordination to the priesthood,” said Deacon McCalister when he received the news from Rome. Deacon McCalister, a husband and father of five, will become the first married priest to be ordained in the Steubenville Diocese. Since St. Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical “Sacerdotalis caelibatus” (“Of priestly celibacy”), the Catholic Church has allowed on a case-by-case basis married men who enter the Catholic Church from other traditions to be ordained as priests. However, the pope affirmed clerical celibacy as a general law in the Catholic Church...

Dieudonné Cardinal Nzapalainga C.S.Sp, is the  Archbishop of Bangui in the Central African Republic and a Spiritan who served as the  Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Bangui from 2009 until mid-2012 when Pope Benedict XVI  appointed him as its Metropolitan Archbishop. The prelate has since 2013 served as the President of the Central African Episcopal Conference.  When Pope Francis appointed him as Cardinal on November 19, 2016, he became the youngest Cardinal and the first born after the Second Vatican Council. He is the world's youngest Cardinal who hails from Africa Source: catholicnewsdailygh.blogspot.com

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A Ghanaian religious nun, belonging to the congregation of the  Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, (SSpS) Sr. Cynthia Addi-Chanagea, SSpS is first African from the congregation to have graduated from university  with a degree in journalism,  NewsWatch  can report. Sr. Cynthia was one of the many who were certified at the 16th graduation ceremony of the African University College of Communications in Accra on Saturday, November 23. Before attaining this feat, She was the second SSpS Sister of the Navrongo /Bolgatanga Diocese and the first SSpS from Our Lady of seven sorrows Basilica, Navrongo. Sr. Cynthia Addi-Chanagea, SSpS studied Secretaryship at the Oxford SHS/ Secretary school, Tema.  She continued to then Accra Polytechnic, now Accra Technical University obtaining a DBS in secretaryship. She worked at the Catholic Communications office in Accra for briefly and moved to the Ghana Cocoa Board for a year . In 2010, She then start...

 In a meeting with priests and religious in Thailand Friday, Pope Francis urged an inculturation of the Gospel which allows it to have a “Thai face and flesh,” and not be seen as a religion only for foreigners. “Let us not be afraid to continue inculturating the Gospel,” he said Nov. 22 in St. Peter Parish in the district of Sam Phran to the west of Bangkok. “We need to seek new ways of transmitting the word, ways that are capable of mobilizing and awakening a desire to know the Lord,” he said, adding that he was saddened to learn that for many people in Thailand, Christianity is “a foreign faith, a religion for foreigners.” “This should spur us to find ways to confess the faith ‘in dialect,’ like a mother who sings lullabies to her child,” he urged. “With that same intimacy, let us give faith a Thai face and flesh.” It is about more than making translations, he said, “it is about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb; to let it ‘sing’ with the native m...

A South Carolina Catholic priest denied Holy Communion to presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday, because of the candidate’s support for legal abortion. Fr. Robert Morey, pastor of St. Anthony Catholic Church in the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, denied Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden Holy Communion at Sunday Mass for his support of legal abortion, the Florence Morning News reported Monday. "Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden,” Morey said in a statement he sent CNA Oct 28. “Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching,” the priest added. According to the Florence Morning News, Morey was a lawyer for 14 years before becoming a priest, practicing law in North Carolina and working for seven years for the Environmental Protection Ag...

In  The Innocents Abroad , published in 1869, Mark Twain humorously narrates his travels thorough Europe and the Holy Land. He goes out of his way to praise the great hospitality that Catholic priests offered to any pilgrim traveling through 19th century Palestine. They readily welcomed all, whether they came “in rags or clad in purple.” Twain was pleasantly surprised by this, because, as he readily confesses, he had been “educated to enmity toward everything that is Catholic.” Enmity toward everything Catholic! Not a thing of the past. Most recently, the hatred was aimed at one of the most charitable and benevolent group of individuals in this country, the Knights of Columbus. During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s review of Omaha-based lawyer Brian C. Buescher for the position of judge on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, Senators Mazie Hirono, a democrat from Hawaii, and Kamala Harris, a democrat from California, grilled Buescher on his memb...

The meeting for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region has approved a final document which calls for the ordination of married men as priests and for women to be considered for diaconal ordination. The 33-page document, approved Oct. 26, is the result of a three-week meeting in Rome. The synod’s 181 voting members, together with representatives from indigenous communities, religious orders, lay groups and charities, discussed a range of issues concerning the region, spread across nine countries. In ordinary sessions of the Synod of Bishops, delegates are elected by the world's bishops conferences. In the special session for the pan-Amazonian region, all attendees were by special invitation. The document presents the synodal assembly’s reflections and conclusions on topics ranging from environmentalism, inculturation in the Church, and the human rights of indigenous communities in the face of economic, environmental, and cultural exploitation. The draft text ...

, Bishop Arthur Joseph Serratelli,  bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, writes: A few years ago, Paul Croituru and his young son went out treasure hunting near their native village in Romania. To their surprise, they discovered ancient Greek currency dating back 2,350 years to the time of King Philip II. The 300 silver coins turned out to be counterfeit. The father and son now hold the distinction of having discovered the oldest counterfeit money known thus far. Counterfeit money has been around as long as money has been around. In fact, some have named the production of counterfeit money “the world's second oldest profession.” During war time, nations often resort to counterfeit money to inflict harm on their enemies. During the Revolutionary War, Great Britain attempted to devalue the continental dollar by flooding the market with  shovers  (fake dollars). During World War II, the Nazis made prisoners in their camps forge British pounds and American dollars to desta...

metro.co.uk WHAT IS BREAST IRONING? Breast ironing, also known as breast flattening, is a process that involves pounding or beating a young girl’s breast using hard or hot objects. Breast ironing usually begins with the onset of puberty. It is done to prevent, or reverse breast growth. The United Nations (UN) describes breast ironing as one of the top five most underreported crimes related to gender-based violence. WHY IS IT PRACTISED? www.youtube.com Breast ironing can be practised for many different reasons. Often, breast ironing is aimed at slowing physical maturity and puberty, to prevent unwanted attention from men and delay a girl’s sexual activity. Breast ironing is often practised by mothers. Some mothers may practice breast ironing of their daughters to prevent them from getting married and so they will stay in school for longer. WHERE IS IT PRACTISED? Breast ironing is practised in many countries across West and Central Africa, including Togo, Benin, ...

ADAM BONAA- SECURITY ANALYST In an interaction on TV3’s key points on Saturday, September 21 2019, security and safety expert Adam Bonaa has indicated that Maame   Yaa   Tiwaa   Addo - Danquah   is undeniably  the best person to be the director general of police. In his submission, he questioned the intensified calls for the resignation of  Maame   Yaa   Tiwaa   Addo - Danquah ,    the Director-General, Criminal Investigations Department  by a section of the public following her " categorical statement" on the whereabouts of the Takoradi kidnapped girls  as to whether there is anyone in a better position to man the affairs of the police service. “Do you know anyone better  than her who can do the job?”, he reiterated and further challenged anyone  to speak to facts if there is any. Maame   Yaa   Tiwaa   Addo - Danquah  has over the past days come...

By Bishop Arthur Serratelli  Bishop Arthur Joseph Serratelli One of the most famous figures of all English literature is the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Three times he appears in Shakespeare’s play  The Tragedy of Hamlet ,  Prince of Denmark . He demands that his son settle accounts with his uncle who murdered the dead king. In Shakespeare’s  Macbeth ,  Julius Caesar  and  Richard III , ghosts also appear. From the 3rd century B.C.  Epic of Gilgamesh  through Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare and Dickens, ghosts populated the pages of literature. They have appeared in films and even starred in their own TV show,  Ghost Hunters . Are ghosts merely fictional? Do they really exist?  First Lady Grace Coolidge said that she saw Abraham Lincoln’s ghost looking out the window of the Oval Office. Many others have, likewise, reported sightings of the ghost of our 16th President at the White House. Among those claiming to hav...