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The state of California has ruled that the Los Angeles Unified School District violated federal law in ways that prevented assistance for academically struggling students in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The decision could restore millions of dollars to Catholic schools. The Archdiocese filed a complaint in 2019 after the district blocked all but 17 of the more than 100 previously eligible Catholic schools from receiving Title 1 funds. These funds assist underperforming students with math, English and counseling.
The Diocese of Calgary has promised compensation for survivors of local residential schools. The diocese said the fund is one way it hopes to bring about justice and healing to Canada’s Indigenous population. Hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered at the sites of several former Catholic-run residential schools.
A New Mexico state senator said he was denied Communion this weekend because of a political matter. His diocese of Las Cruces has said he was privately warned he should not approach Communion, due to his support for a pro-abortion bill. The senator’s parish pastor similarly warned the senator in private not to approach Communion.
A request has been made to open the beatification cause of the co-founder of the Neocatechumenal Way. Carmen Hernández died five years ago at the age of 85. The ecclesial movement draws its inspiration from the practices of the early Catholic Church, providing “post-baptismal” Christian formation in some 40,000 small parish-based communities. The movement has an estimated membership of more than a million people across the world.
Today is the feast of Saint Margaret of Antioch, a virgin and martyr.