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Month: July 2018
Mount Carmel Devotion Spans Cultures, Generations
The closing Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel took place at its namesake parish in Williamsburg July 16 during the peak of summer, but July’s rising temperatures couldn’t take away from an overflowing congregation – mostly first-generation Italian-Americans and Haitian immigrants from around the diocese. They came to honor their Blessed Mother as a devotion that traces throughout cultural and family traditions.
Nicaraguan Bishops Conduct Day of Prayer, Fasting as Violence Continues
As attacks on Catholic clergy continue and anti-government protesters are besieged by Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries, the bishops said they would pray an exorcism prayer.
Trinidadian Christians Support Traditional Marriage
Interfaith leaders, including Catholics, have declared their belief that marriage can only be between a biological man and a biological woman.
Father Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R.
Father Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R., a Redemptorist priest for nearly 70 years, died July 16, two days before his 91st birthday.
Father Richard V. Kuhn, S.M.
Father Richard V. Kuhn, S.M., who was about to celebrate his 60th anniversary as a Marianist priest, died July 5. He was 90.
Life in Egypt for a Christian Woman: ‘Easy Prey’
To be a woman in a country where most of her people see women as a disgrace, and at best look at her from a sexual point of view, it is a heavy burden, but even worse when you are a Christian woman. It is hell!
Visiting Priests Come to Assist Diocesan Parishes
Father John Okeke has spent 18 summers serving parishes in the U.S., the last 10 in the Diocese of Brooklyn. In his native Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria, he is a pastor, but when he comes to New York in July and August, he gets a break from his day-to-day responsibilities.
NY Times Details Alleged Abuse By Cardinal, Settlements Received
NEW YORK (CNS) – A front-page New York Times article published July 16 detailed the alleged abuse of two seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., by then-Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick in the 1980s that resulted in settlements to each man.
Former Chilean Chancellor Arrested on Abuse Charges
by Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – As the Catholic Church in Chile continues to reel from allegations of clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups, police arrested the former chancellor of the Archdiocese of Santiago on accusations that he had sexually abused minors.