Polish cardinal dies 10 days after being disciplined by Vatican November 16, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News Polish Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, retired archbishop of Wroclaw, died Nov. 16, just 10 days after the publication of Vatican disciplinary measures against him related to sexual abuse.
Pope Francis calls Biden to congratulate him on winning presidential election November 12, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis called President-elect Joe Biden early Nov. 12 to congratulate him on winning the U.S. presidential election.
At 100, WWII vet recounts joining Women’s Coast Guard Reserves to serve country November 11, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News In November 1942, Congress allowed the Reserve to accept women as commissioned officers and at the enlisted level.
Banned Polish cardinal unconscious in hospital November 11, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A retired Polish cardinal disciplined by the Vatican in early November has been hospitalized and remains unconscious, Polish media reported Nov. 10.
USCCB president apologizes to clergy abuse victims as report is released November 10, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, McCarrick Report, News, World News Calling a Vatican report on its investigation into its knowledge of sexual improprieties of Theodore McCarrick while a clergyman, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles said the findings mark “another tragic chapter in the church’s long struggle to confront the crimes of sexual abuse by clergy.”
Timeline of key events in case of former Cardinal McCarrick November 9, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, McCarrick Report, News, World News Here is a timeline of key events in the life of Theodore E. McCarrick, beginning with his ordination as a priest for the Archdiocese of New York more than 60 years ago.
Archbishop Gomez: Nation’s leaders must now ‘come together’ with election of new president November 8, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News With Joe Biden now elected as the nation’s 46th president, it is “time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Hope is gift to seek from God, pope says on All Souls’ feast November 3, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When life is difficult and when one is mourning the passing of a loved one, it is time to pray for the gift of hope and the ability to say with the prophet Job, “I know that my redeemer lives,” Pope Francis said.
French bishops ‘cleanse’ Nice basilica after attack November 2, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News The penitential rite was necessary to purify the church from the stain of a “gravely injurious act,” such as a homicide, before normal religious activities could resume, according to a Nov. 1 statement on the website of the Diocese of Nice.
Vatican Christmas: Details of stamps, Nativity scene, tree released October 30, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News Although the Vatican knows Christmas may be very different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it already has chosen its stamps and the Nativity scene and tree that will stand in St. Peter’s Square.
Catholic, Jewish leaders mark 55th anniversary of ‘Nostra Aetate’ October 29, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The formal structures that sponsor Catholic-Jewish dialogue are important, but their decades of success have relied on strong personal friendships and mutual respect, both of which must continue to spread among all Catholics and Jews, officials involved in the dialogue said.
Book offers details about alleged manipulation by Schonstatt founder October 28, 2020By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Father Kentenich, who died in 1968, remains popular to this day. Von Teuffenbach has accused him of systematic manipulation, abuse of power and sexual harassment.