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 May 2009 Nun runner needs 100-mile prayersMIAMI | The Miami Herald reports that Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, a Filippini Sister, wearing her full black habit, will be running the KEYS100 race that begins this Saturday, May 16. She is doing it to raise money for AIDS orphans in Africa. Read the Miami Herald’s article and watch a video interview HERE. UPDATE 05.18.09: According to the Miami Herald’s report after the race, Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd didn’t quite make the finish line. Read more here. Ana Rodriquez-Soto | 05.15.09 | Return To Top Bishops, public defenders decry death penaltyORLANDO | For the fourth time in less than a year, Florida’s bishops called upon Gov. Charlie Crist to spare the life of a state prisoner slated for execution and to end the use of the death penalty in Florida. The scheduled May 13 execution of convicted killer and rapist John Richard Marek was postponed indefinitely May 11, but not by the governor and not because of moral pleas such as the one issued by the bishops in their statement that same day. According to numerous media reports, the Florida Supreme Court postponed Marek’s execution because of new evidence that the 1983 murder of Adella Marie Simmons may have been committed by an accomplice rather than by Marek. The court is scheduled to review the evidence May 20 and decide whether to lift Marek’s death sentence. The move leaves the bishops’ moral concerns – as well as cost and fairness concerns expressed by Florida’s public defenders in January when they called for a moratorium on executions – unaddressed. MORE... Denise O’Toole Kelly | 05.13.09 | Return To Top Florida Catholic cops some top Christian press awardsORLANDO | The Florida Catholic’s online edition was honored as first among publication Web sites and its print edition placed second among regional newspapers during the 2009 Best of the Christian Press awards ceremony May 7 in Indianapolis. The awards and four additional awards for individual Florida Catholic writers and designers were bestowed by the Associated Church Press, the oldest interdenominational religious press association in North America. Judges for the organization, founded in 1916, chose the winners from among more than 1,000 entries in 60 categories of work in religious publications in the U.S. and Canada during 2008. MORE... 05.12.09 | Return To Top Some Cuban exiles are still waryMIAMI | The news of the White House easing restrictions on family-related transfer of money and travel to Cuba has been met with some enthusiasm, but also criticism from Cubans in Florida. While the easing of travel is a nice touch, many in Florida’s Cuban Catholic community have reservations regarding the flow of money into the island – reservations that stem from the dawn of Fidel Castro’s rise to power. Raul Carpio, 73, parishioner at St. Michael Parish in Miami, believes that the lifting of restrictions on money is a bad idea. “Whatever goes into Cuba is given to those who already have 20 houses all over the island,” Carpio said, suggesting that money sent to the island will only benefit the rich and powerful and not the intended addressees. “If I send $100 to family over there, only $80 will make it to them,” Carpio said. MORE... Daniel Soñé | 05.11.09 | Return To Top Doctors as killers: Slouching toward the unthinkableIn his "Jesus in my Pocket Column," Dale Recinella writes: With barely a shrug of understanding from any quarter of our vast nation, the North Carolina Supreme Court recently decided to make doctors legal killers for the government. The opinion reads as though the only issue at stake is whether one supports the death penalty. Almost as horrendous as the outcome of that razor-thin 4-3 decision is the fact that the dissent of the three justices is based upon separation of powers, not on the moral quicksand of doctors who perform legal killings for government. Has anybody studied world history? Read the rest of Recinella’s column here. Special to the Florida Catholic | 05.11.09 | Return To Top |
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