Happenings – June 2012
by Ken Greatorex
Nuns Fight Back! In last month’s Happenings, we reported on an attempt by The Vatican to rein in America’s fifty thousand nuns. Here’s the latest. Meanwhile, Australia’s last openly progressive Catholic bishop, Canberra’s Pat Power resigned, citing the Vatican’s inability to listen, clergy sex abuse and the shortage of priests as the biggest issues facing the church.
In Australia, a supreme court judge has forced Jehova’s Witness parents to allow their four-year-old daughter to receive a blood transfusion, without which she had a life expectancy of a few weeks. View More Happenings – June 2012