VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The family is under attack now more than ever because of today’s culture of division that wants to break from and be free of all everlasting bonds and forms of solidarity, Pope Francis said.
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Daughters of Wisdom Choose New Leaders
The Daughters of Wisdom of the U.S. Province have selected their new leadership team.
New Chicago Archbishop Chooses Cathedral Rectory
CHICAGO (CNS) – Archbishop Blase J. Cupich, who will succeed Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George in mid-November, told the priests of the Archdiocese of Chicago that he has decided he will live in the rectory at Holy Name Cathedral.
Synod Father: Change Requires a Consensus
ROME (CNS) – Looking ahead to the October, 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family, Cardinal George Pell said the task for Catholics “over the next 12 months” is to explain “the necessity of conversion, the nature of the Mass” and “the purity of heart the Scriptures require of us to receive holy Communion.”
Liturgy Items Dominate Bishops’ Slate
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Liturgical matters will take center stage on the agenda of action items at the fall general meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), to be held Nov. 10-13 in Baltimore.
Nun’s Murderer Says Family’s Forgiveness Gave Him ‘New Life’
UDAINAGAR, India (CNS) – The man who served a prison term for the 1995 murder of a Franciscan Clarist nun said that the forgiveness shown to him by the slain nun’s family has given him “new life.”
Pope Calls for End To Death Penalty
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis called for abolition of the death penalty as well as life imprisonment and denounced what he called a “penal populism” that promises to solve society’s problems by punishing crime instead of pursuing social justice.
Year for Consecrated Life
The worldwide observance of the Year for Consecrated Life proclaimed by Pope Francis will open in the diocese with prayer services in Brooklyn and Queens. Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge, will be the site for the Brooklyn service on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 3:30 p.m. The opening in Queens will take place on Sunday, Dec. 14, at Immaculate Conception Monastery Church, Jamaica Estates, at 3:30 p.m.
Priests of Diocese Convene To Reflect on Their Ministry
On the newly designated Feast of St. John Paul II, the priests of Brooklyn and Queens were told to use the new saint as a role model for their priesthood. “If the Lord is going to renew His flock in the Diocese of Brooklyn, He is going to do it through the parish priest,” said Coadjutor Archbishop Bernard Hebda of Newark, N.J.
Pilgrims to National Shrine Reflect Ethnic Make-Up of Diocese (with video and slideshow)
A record 3,000 pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, D.C. for a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate in Conception .