by Antonina Zielinska The Brooklyn Diocesan Pastoral Institute invited lay ministers from Brooklyn and Queens to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Forest Hills, to celebrate vespers on Lay Ministry Sunday, Feb. 10. “I am most grateful to you for being here tonight to celebrate your ministries,” said Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano, who serves the […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The tension in U.S. economic life is between “wealth creation” and “wealth capturing,” according to an economics professor who delivered a keynote address Feb. 11 at the 2013 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C. According to Charles M.A. Clark, a senior fellow at the Vincentian Center for Church & Society at […]
by Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – As much as he astonished the world when he announced his resignation Feb. 11, Pope Benedict XVI’s decision seems almost predictable in hindsight. Given his previous statements on the subject and his recent signs of aging, one might say that people should have seen it coming. The […]
Five Franciscan leaders based in New York and New Jersey, whose ministries were affected by superstorm Sandy, have sent to Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie a letter noting how the governors have a unique opportunity to highlight the link between global climate change and storms like October’s superstorm Sandy. “It is incumbent upon all […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – While the surprise resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is a first for the Church in centuries, it also leads to a complicated period of transition that ends in the election of a new pope. Regulated by ancient traditions and recent rules, the period between popes – known by the Latin term […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican monastery where Pope Benedict XVI intends to live began its life as the Vatican gardener’s house but was established as a cloistered convent by Blessed John Paul II in 1994. When Pope Benedict, 85, announced that his age and declining energies prompted his decision to resign, the Vatican said […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In October, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dismissed Roy Bourgeois from the priesthood because of his participation in the invalid ordination of a woman. Since then, a Jesuit in Wisconsin has had his priestly faculties suspended after he celebrated a liturgy with a woman purporting to be a […]
As pro-abortion advocates continue to push for the so-called “Reproductive Health Act,” a new statewide poll reveals that voters overwhelmingly oppose expanding the state’s abortions laws and, indeed, favor greater restrictions on abortion than what is already in law. While a majority of respondents (55 percent) described themselves as “pro-choice,” two out of three (66 […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The new proposed rules issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding insurance coverage of contraceptives show movement but fall short of addressing the U.S. bishops’ concerns, said New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan. The cardinal, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the […]
