Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — A proposed commission that would air complaints against bishops in cases of sex abuse or harassment bears similarities to the model of diocesan review boards that hear such allegations against priests....
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops opened and closed the second day of their annual fall general assembly in Baltimore with frank presentations and discussions about the action needed to address the widening clerical sexual abuse crisis. After...
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — A series of standards of episcopal accountability for bishops was formally unveiled Nov. 13 at the fall general meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. The standards will not be voted...
Nov 13, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops gave a standing ovation Nov. 13 to Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the National Review Board, for his report on the widening abuse crisis in the church and his calls for more action from them to address the...
Nov 13, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will make a two-day apostolic visit to Morocco next year, the Vatican announced. Accepting an invitation by Moroccan King Mohammed VI, the pope will visit the cities of Rabat and...
Nov 13, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
With an acoustic guitar and a beautiful singing voice, Jackie Francois Angel brought a message of God’s love to students and families across the diocese last week. Francois Angel, a Catholic speaker, singer/songwriter, and worship leader from Orange County, Calif.,...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops, who gathered for a time of prayer at the start of their annual fall meeting in Baltimore, were urged by Catholic women church leaders Nov. 12 to be courageous and work with each other and...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Emily Rosenthal | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened a Day of Prayer at the Fall Bishops General Assembly Nov. 12, John McKeon was the first to walk a path along Aliceanna Street outside the Baltimore...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — Luis A. Torres Jr. stood before a group of U.S. bishops during one of the most publicly watched of their fall annual meetings Nov. 12 in Baltimore and in doing so revealed to the world the reality that he has...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — A Vatican-requested delay in adopting practices that are expected to boost accountability among U.S. bishops in their response to clergy sex abuse is a “bump in the road,” said the president of...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — At the start of the annual fall meeting of the U.S. bishops in Baltimore, Archbishop Christophe Pierre encouraged the U.S. bishops to work hard together to restore trust and bring about church reform amid...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The Diocese of Buffalo released Nov. 5 a second list of priests with substantiated claims of sexual abuse of a minor. Father James Smyka, OFM Conv., appears on that list. The Diocese of Syracuse issued the following statement Nov. 12: Father James...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — With a solemn Mass, the mournful toll of bells, and patriotic songs and poems, more than 300 gathered at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington on Nov. 11 to mark the 100th anniversary...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Scientists worldwide must serve humanity and the health of the planet, which means they must also propose viable solutions to problems and persuade government leaders and policymakers to implement them,...
Nov 12, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — At the urging of the Vatican, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will not vote on two proposals they were to discuss regarding their response to the clergy sex abuse crisis. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo...
Nov 9, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Break through every “wall” of gloom and resignation and help the world realize people need to take care of one another because they are all part of one human family, Pope Francis told Catholic...
Nov 9, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The decision to appoint Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick to lead the Archdiocese of Washington and eventually to make him a cardinal went forward at the insistence of St. John Paul II’s...
Nov 9, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Matthew Gambino | Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Acting on his promise to find new ways to support survivors of clerical sexual abuse, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced Nov. 8 that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is creating a new reparations...
Nov 8, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
From the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Following the tragic shooting early this morning in Thousand Oaks, California, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement calling for the...
Nov 7, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Submitted by Holy Family School Holy Family School kindergarteners worked in pairs on a STREAM — science, technology, religion, engineering, arts, and math — project this week, according to teacher Christine Isbell. “Their goal was to build a house for their...