My colleague, George Martell, took this photo of me and Cardinal Seán after an adoration and prayer service with him and other Pastoral Center employees to pray with and for him as heads to Rome for the conclave. I asked Anthony who he saw in the picture. “Daddy,” he said. “And who else?” “Jesus!” Job [...]
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Bishop speaks the truth in love to NADLGM conference
Coadjutor Bishop Jaime Soto, who will become the ordinary of Sacramento, California, at the end of November, was invited to speak to the conference of the National Association of Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries. These are people who work directly for bishops. Bishop Soto simply repeated the Church’s teachings. “Sexual relations between people of the [...]
Follieri revisted again
The FBI has arrested Raffaello Follieri and accused him of fraud for claiming Vatican connections in a scheme allegedly to buy mothballed properties from US Catholic dioceses and re-develop them. (Follieri was allegedly making false claims of close ties to then-Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, right.) According to the FBI, Follieri claimed the [...]
The “Boss” at Theology on Tap
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston spoke at a Theology on Tap at Bad Abbot’s in Quincy, Mass., on October 10. I hear it was standing-room only.
New bishop for Baltimore
The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Edwin Frederick O’Brien, military ordinary for the U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Baltimore (area 12,430, population 3,055,477, Catholics 517,679, priests 545, permanent deacons 178, religious 1,380), U.S.A. He succeeds Cardinal William Henry Keeler, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached [...]
Chicago archdiocese speaks out on Pfleger
The Archdiocese of Chicago has responded to the outrageous comments by Fr. Michael Plfeger in which he said a gun shop owner and some legislators should be “snuffed”. Now, we all know that the jargon of the street says that “snuffed” means killed, but the context of how he used is clear that he meant [...]
Cardinal Pell’s mandate for Catholic school principals
How’s this for a bizarre headline: “Sydney principals forced to uphold Catholic values.” In other news, lawyers have been forced to uphold the law, doctors have been forced to treat disease, and baseball players have been forced to win games. This is the headline on the transcript of a news report from the Australian ABC [...]
Fordham events
Received in an email this morning this notice of two upcoming events at Fordham University in New York: This Saturday will be the conference on “Leadership in the U.S. Catholic Church”: The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University will bring together scholars and clergy, including three bishops from dioceses [...]
The anti-traditional tendency
I want to be clear that in my previous blog entry when I spoke of the a need not to become mired in the past but to embrace a growing, but rooted vision of the Church and tradition, I don’t think I meant what Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, California, did in his ordination homily [...]
Interesting Canadian appointments
Pope Benedict made some interesting episcopal appointments in Canada today: – Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of Hamilton, Canada, presented by Bishop Matthew Francis Ustrzycki, upon having reached the age limit. – Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of San Diego, U.S.A., presented by [...]
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