Sacred Heart Church to offer Bible school
Sacred Heart Church will hold its annual Vacation Bible School for children entering preschool through fifth grade from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Friday at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 254 East Fifth Ave.
Children will learn from Bible stories, play games, make crafts and have fun at SonSpark Labs.
Participants should bring a sack lunch and drink.
For more information, call Wivina Vigil at 903-6896.
Unitarian Universalists to discuss well-being
Suzanne Arms will discuss “On the Well-being of Our Soul” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive.
Through the centuries, philosophers, poets and artists have placed great importance on matters of the soul.
Arms has been an outspoken visionary, author, inspired teacher and public speaker since 1975.
Blending Earth-based wisdom, modern science and intuition, Arms has a unique perspective about creating just, sustainable societies and a peaceful world.
For more information, visit www.durangouu.org.
Presbyterians invite kids to Bible school
Vacation Bible School will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 10-12 at Florida Mesa Presbyterian Church, 1024 County Road 230.
The school is open to students about to enter grades one to six. The school will feature science labs, edible experiments and more.
For more information and to register, call Teri Roberts at 769-6458.
Victim advocates seek Vatican inquiry
NEW YORK – Priests, nuns and canon lawyers who advocate for molestation victims urged Pope Francis on Wednesday to use the new Vatican tribunal he formed on negligent bishops to investigate the archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, who has long been accused of sheltering abusive priests.
The plea comes as Francis prepares for his first visit to the U.S. in September, a trip which will take place against the backdrop of the broad unfinished business of the molestation scandal.
The crisis erupted in 2002 with the case of one pedophile priest in the Archdiocese of Boston before spreading nationwide, then engulfing the Roman Catholic Church.
The advocates, who call themselves the Catholic Whistleblowers, said they will present evidence to the Vatican that Archbishop John Myers has been persistently hostile toward people who come forward with abuse allegations and had left guilty clerics in parishes in the Newark archdiocese and in his previous post as bishop of Peoria, Illinois.
Myers has repeatedly defended his record, noting that he has removed many guilty priests.
Herald Staff and Associated Press
