April 26, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, may soon be the subject of a Vatican investigation under the terms of
Vos Estis, the Pillar site reports. Complaints against Bishop Stika involve his handling of abuse charges lodged against a former seminarian who lived in the bishop’s residence. The bishop says that the charges were properly handled.
Vos Estis was issued by Pope Francis to provide for evaluation of bishops’ response to abuse complaints.
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Knoxville bishop responds to shooting
Friday, Apr. 16, 2021
By Catholic News Service
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville offered prayers for a teenager who was killed and an injured police officer involved in a school shooting. The bishop also expressed concern in a statement April 12 following the incident for “the series of tragic events” that have resulted in the deaths of four other teens since Jan. 27 who were former or current students at the Knoxville public school as well as concern for mass shootings in several cities nationwide in recent weeks. Such incidents, he said, “demonstrate that violence in our society remains a serious, almost daily occurrence and that it claims victims in many different ways.”
After Knoxville shootings, a call to find solutions to violence
Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., is seen at the Vatican Dec. 3, 2019. Bishop Stika offered prayers April 13, 2021, after a shooting the day before at a Knoxville public school in his diocese, but he also urged U.S. communities to come together to find positive solutions to this ongoing problem in our country. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tenn., is seen at the Vatican Dec. 3, 2019. Bishop Stika offered prayers April 13, 2021, after a shooting the day before at a Knoxville public school in his diocese, but he also urged U.S. communities to come together “to find positive solutions to this ongoing problem in our country.” (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Roy Exum: I’m Not A Christian? Friday, March 5, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
The email read: “I cannot comprehend how killing unborn babies and using their tissue in medicine is obedience to Christ.” Earlier in the email the writer acknowledged that I publicly state I am a Christian “… then I see a huge problem with your characterization of (the new Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as a ‘Godsend.’) “Killing babies for their parts is not from God, it is evil and clearly from the enemy.”
Well, dash me with a bucket of ice water. Please, any size of a jerk who wants to make folly of my deeply held Christian beliefs in order to tell me that the J&J vaccine “is the first one (so far) to use aborted fetal cells in the vaccine itself” should immediately grasp his own Bible and read, Exodus 20, verses 2 through 17. Pay close attention to the 12th verse where No. 9 of ‘The Ten Commandments’ warns, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Catholic leaders across the U.S. raised concerns about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine's use of fetal cell lines in its development, testing and production.