President Biden traveled to New York City Thursday at Mayor Eric Adams’ request to discuss ways to curb the rise in gun violence that has gripped the city this year, claiming an alarming number of lives of police officers as well as civilians.
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Thousands Mourn ‘Gentle Giant’ Wilbert Mora at St. Patrick’s Funeral Mass
Police, politicians, and priests on Wednesday, Feb. 2 joined the family of Wilbert Mora, a New York City police officer, at his funeral, offering eulogies that told of his colossal size and heart to match.
In Death, Officer Mora Gave Life to Others
Police officer Wilbert Mora, the second cop to die in the Harlem shooting that killed Det. Jason Rivera, was generous in death.
Religious Order Leads Affordable Housing Project on Closed Catholic Campus
In a project led by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, regular working folks will have dwellings they can afford in one of Oregon’s highest rent districts by fall 2023.
Christmas Day Wedding In Texas Hospital Brings joy to a Family
Even as the public has grown weary of the pandemic, Catholic chaplains at hospitals continue to work hard ministering to patients with COVID-19 and those battling other illnesses.
Support Grows For Tax-Credit Scholarships for Chicago Catholic Students
Donations for tax-credit scholarships to the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Catholic schools are up about 20% this year compared with the same time last year, archdiocesan officials reported.
Cardinal Urges Gathering’s Participants To ‘Work For Greater Justice’
“Time is never meant to be useless,” said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington in his homily at the opening Mass this year’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, and he advised the gathering’s 800-plus registrants to “work for greater justice in our world.”
Knowing Black Catholic History Can Help End Racism, Professor Says
The history of Black Catholics and other marginalized people in the U.S. church covering more than two centuries is one worth knowing and can guide the church’s response to the challenges of racism and social justice, historian Shannen Dee Williams believes.
Prayer Can Guide Encounters At the Margins In Work For Justice, Bishop Says
For all the years Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, has spent ministering at the Mexican border with people on the move to the United States, it was a young girl, he said, who taught him about hope.
CCBQ Donates Mobile Office To Aid Kentucky Tornado Victims
Last month, Msgr. Alfred LoPinto, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, decided the organization’s mobile office would get better use in Western Kentucky where a spake of killer tornadoes had just torn across the region.