VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican has given the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X a formal “doctrinal preamble” listing several principles they must agree with in order to move toward full reconciliation with the Church. U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave the statement to […]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, front left, speaks with Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, center, and Washington Episcopal Bishop John Bryson Chane, right, during a meeting in Tehran Sept. 17. Cardinal McCarrick and the Episcopal bishop were part of a delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders who were in Iran appealing for the […]

Father Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap. I was appointed by the Vatican to write two of the three volumes that constituted the Positio for the Cause of the Canonization of the Servant of God, Solanus Casey. He was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who was assigned to St. Michael’s in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn […]

Queens native, Bishop Peter A. Libasci, auxiliary of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, was appointed as Bishop of Manchester, N.H., on Sept. 19. The bishop-elect was born in Jackson Heights in 1951. He attended St. Margaret’s School, Middle Village; Cathedral Prep, Elmhurst; St. John’s University, Jamaica; and the St. Meinrad School of Theology in Meinrad, […]

Brooklyn native Tom O’Brien has been appointed director of development for the Alive in Hope Foundation. The move marks the joining of the office’s development efforts. “We needed more focus on development, establishing new relationships with businesses and continued cultivation of our existing donors” said Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, Vicar for Development. O’Brien will oversee the […]

by Graham Yearley “G.K. Chesterton: A Biography” by Ian Ker. Oxford University Press (New York, 2011). 688 pp., $65. Any adjective denoting great size – gargantuan, titanic, huge – seems to apply aptly not only to the literary output of G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton but to his physical appearance as well. Chesterton, best known today […]

If every moment of Christ’s life was a constant humiliation (cf. Phil. 2:5-8), that debasement certainly continues in the suffering body of unemployed or under employed humanity. The cross of joblessness that so many bear today and the increasing impoverishment — in our own country alone, 14 million or 15% are poor — is more […]

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