Angelus News | May 17, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 18
A priest waits while sitting in a confessional box in the Cathedral of Barcelona. A new bill making its way through the California legislature would seek to force priests to break divine law in order to follow civil law. But would requiring priests to break the seal of confession in cases of alleged child sexual abuse really prevent abuse? On page 10, editor Pablo Kay weighs both sides of the debate surrounding SB 360 and looks at how similar legislation has fared in other places. On page 13, contributing editor Mike Aquilina recounts the history of confessional secrecy as a key part of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Catholic faith. And on page 3, Archbishop José H. Gomez writes why the bill is a “mortal threat to the religious freedom of every Catholic.”
A priest waits while sitting in a confessional box in the Cathedral of Barcelona. A new bill making its way through the California legislature would seek to force priests to break divine law in order to follow civil law. But would requiring priests to break the seal of confession in cases of alleged child sexual abuse really prevent abuse? On page 10, editor Pablo Kay weighs both sides of the debate surrounding SB 360 and looks at how similar legislation has fared in other places. On page 13, contributing editor Mike Aquilina recounts the history of confessional secrecy as a key part of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Catholic faith. And on page 3, Archbishop José H. Gomez writes why the bill is a “mortal threat to the religious freedom of every Catholic.”
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POMONA CATHOLIC SCHOOL<br />
LOCAL<br />
Catholic Charities honors<br />
Pomona Catholic<br />
Pomona Catholic was a recipient of the Spirit of<br />
Caring Award at the 35th annual San Gabriel Region<br />
<strong>Vol</strong>unteer Recognition Dinner on <strong>May</strong> 6, along with<br />
Bishop David O’Connell and the late Bill Clark.<br />
At the dinner, attendees watched a video telling the<br />
story of how the school community partnered with<br />
Catholic Charities (who hosted the dinner) to provide<br />
support for the family of a student who was in need.<br />
“We applaud Pomona Catholic for their creative and<br />
service-first approach to education, which was especially<br />
demonstrated in their significant efforts to help<br />
one family who was most in need,” said Priya Tharayil,<br />
the San Gabriel regional director of Catholic Charities.<br />
<br />
Pomona Catholic representatives accept the Spirit of Caring Award.<br />
Kathleen Buckley Domingo and Father Allen Figueroa Deck, SJ.<br />
LA faith leaders work it out<br />
Two leading LA Catholics discussed the Church’s<br />
charity efforts and social teaching on labor at an event<br />
organized by WorkingNation, a nonprofit media<br />
company that promotes dialogue about today’s rapidly<br />
changing labor force.<br />
Father Allan Figueroa Deck, SJ, and Kathleen Buckley<br />
Domingo spoke on different panels at the <strong>May</strong> 8<br />
“Faith at Work” event at the Skirball Center.<br />
Deck, a professor of Theological and Latino Studies<br />
at Loyola Marymount University, spoke at the first panel,<br />
in which he and representatives of various religions<br />
discussed common ground about the ways faith can be<br />
a powerful foundation during the fearful and uneasy<br />
times of downsizing and re-education.<br />
In the second panel discussion, Domingo touched<br />
on how the local church has organized community<br />
job fairs through Catholic Charities, and found ways<br />
to mentor and support people entering the labor force<br />
through programs like “Catholics@Work” and Archdiocesan<br />
Youth Employment.<br />
WorkingNation CEO Art Bilger said afterward both<br />
panels showed a “commonality of perspectives,” and<br />
“will help move the discussion along across this country.”<br />
<br />
MATTHEW WATERS/WORKINGNATION<br />
A MOTHER’S<br />
PRAYER — Two<br />
women pray<br />
the rosary at<br />
Calvary<br />
Cemetery in<br />
Santa Barbara<br />
at one of<br />
several “Rosary<br />
in honor of<br />
mothers”<br />
events held at<br />
the Archdiocese<br />
of Los Angeles’<br />
various<br />
cemeteries and<br />
mortuaries on<br />
Saturday, <strong>May</strong><br />
11, the day<br />
before Mother’s<br />
Day.<br />
SARAH YAKLIC<br />
6 • ANGELUS • <strong>May</strong> <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2019</strong>
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