Gloria.TV News -- August 30, 2013
She Still Wants to Be a Priest: Chicago nun Vivian Ivantic turned 100 on Wednesday. She’s spent 80 years at the Benedictine St. Scholastica Monastery. According to The Chicago Tribune, ever since she was 10 years old, the Sister wanted to become a Catholic … priest. "We need women in church offices," Ivantic told the paper. " And: "I'm waiting for women's ordination.”
First non-Catholic Couple: As of Wednesday ministers from non-Catholic congregations can officiate religious weddings in the Dominican Republic. They belong to three groups: the Christian Church, the Dominican Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Inc. and the Word of Life, Inc. Christian Church. The first non-Catholic wedding celebration in the country was between a 26-year old engineer and a 21-year old woman, officiated by a Jehovah’s Witnesses minister.
There Is No Preference for Catholics: The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has told the London Oratory school, a Catholic boys' comprehensive …More