Gloria TV News on the feast of St. Rose of Lima.
Father Thomas Euteneuer has resigned
USA
Father Thomas Euteneuer [=Iuteniua] has resigned from his post as president of Human Life International (HLI). He will return to pastoral work in the Palm Beach diocese. Father Euteneuer was appointed president of HLI in 2000, taking over the international pro-life organization founded by Father Paul Marx. For the past decade he has been a leading voice of the American pro-life movement. Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, who has headed the HLI office in Rome, has been appointed the interim leader of the Virginia-based group. He will serve until a permanent replacement for Father Euteneuer is named.
Very Low Numbers
Ireland
Only 16 men are entering the seminary in Ireland this year-- down from 39 in 2009, and over 150 during the average year in the 1980s. Ireland currently has 99 seminarians, while England and Wales have 150. “The recent difficulties with Church scandals mean that those thinking tentatively …More