In the eyes of the world, Ash Wednesday is the day when people with “dirty foreheads” appear in supermarkets and cafes and order fish instead of steak. But in the eyes of the faithful, this day is the beginning of a season designed to make the weak-kneed-but-willing into true champions.
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Bishop Joseph F. Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City, has issued a clear statement condemning recent moves to promote expanded abortion laws and warns Catholic politicians who persist in supporting this moral evil that they will be expected to refrain from receiving communion.
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As expected, the Holy See announced on Saturday that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been laicized, but what exactly does this mean?
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The Vatican has announced the official feast day for Pope St. Paul VI which will be celebrated annually on May 29 as an optional memorial.
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It is expected that the case involving disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who is accused of various incidents of sexual abuse over the past 50 years, will be decided by the Vatican before the February 21-24 bishops summit on clerical abuse.
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There may be a decrease in marriage rates and the number of couples who feel that they need to be married in the Church – but experts in Catholic marriage preparation say they are seeing an uptick in the number of couples who are civilly married who now want to enter into sacramental marriage.
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Today is the annual day of prayer and awareness against human trafficking, a scourge that impacts an estimated 40.3 million victims a year – mostly women and children.
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Bishop Thomas Daly of the Diocese of Spokane has issued a
letter to his flock in which he calls politicians who support abortion “scandalous” and advises them not to receive Communion in his diocese.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
With calls for his excommunication ringing in his ears, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo remains unapologetic about championing the nation’s most barbaric abortion policy into law.
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Neither New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan nor Albany’s bishop Edward Scharfenberger are in support of excommunicating New York’s “Catholic” Governor Andrew Cuomo after he championed one of the most radical pro-abortion laws in the nation. However a respected Canon lawyer believes the governor's personal choice not to receive communion should now be made mandatory.
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