The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee said the nation has “urgent work” to do to really show a “radical solidarity with working families.”
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Cardinal Dolan: The Catholic Church has too many seminaries.
To provide quality formation—human, academic, spiritual and pastoral—to our future priests is a sacred duty. We would be able to do this better if we had fewer seminaries, all of them excellent ones.
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Retired Bishop Hubbard of Albany is hospitalized after suffering major stroke
Retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, whose request to be returned to the lay state was rejected by the Vatican, has been hospitalized at Albany Medical Center after suffering a major stroke this week.
Posted inFaith, Features
The complicated legacy of state investigations of the Catholic sex abuse crisis
Parsing the numbers and understanding the implications can be challenging. Are we learning anything new?
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Pope Francis makes surprise appointment of missionary as Lisbon Patriarch
Bishop Valério’s nomination came as a surprise to many since Pope Francis had named Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, a cardinal on July 9. It had been wrongly presumed then that the pope would appoint the cardinal-elect as the new patriarch after the World Youth Day celebrations.
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Retired bishop in New York gets married after bid to leave priesthood denied
An 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said Tuesday he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Exclusive interview: Cardinal Hollerich on how synodality has developed—and how involved Pope Francis has been
In this exclusive interview, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich speaks about the synod of bishops on synodality that will open in the Vatican on Oct. 4, at which for the first time women will participate as full members with the right to vote.
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Every American going to the Synod on Synodality: Full list and analysis
The slate of delegates is emblematic of the at-times competing ideological poles of the U.S. church—and the continued effort by Francis to reorient U.S. bishops toward his vision for the church.
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Interview: Cardinal Cupich spent 2 weeks in Ukraine and Poland. He left both sad and hopeful.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, recently concluded a two-week visit to Poland and war-torn Ukraine, he shares his experience with America’s Vatican correspondent, Gerry O’Connell.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Exclusive interview: Archbishop Frank Leo on Pope Francis, the synod and ‘radical secularism’ in Canada
In the second part of this exclusive interview with America, Archbishop Frank Leo says Pope Francis “stunned” him by nominating him as archbishop of Toronto.