Boston official takes leave, pleads not guilty to sex charge
An episcopal vicar in the archdiocese of Boston began a voluntary administrative leave Monday after he pleaded not guilty to paying for sex with an alleged female prostitute.
An episcopal vicar in the archdiocese of Boston began a voluntary administrative leave Monday after he pleaded not guilty to paying for sex with an alleged female prostitute.
Ken Hackett, retired president of Catholic Relief Services, received Senate confirmation Thursday as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Q-and-A: US Catholic sisters still do not think they can give complete control of LCWR over to US bishops, said the head of the Mercy sisters.
The Benedictine priest who long headed one of the organizations that brought the ire of the Vatican down on U.S. women religious is stepping down.
Retired Bishop George K. Fitzsimons of Salina died Sunday at his home in Ogden. He was 84.
He headed the Salina diocese from 1984 to 2004. In retirement, he lived at the rectory of St. Patrick Parish in Ogden and continued to serve in the diocese until his death.
An evening wake is scheduled for Thursday and a funeral Mass is set to be celebrated the next morning. Both are to take place at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Salina, followed by burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Salina.
Fr. Helmut Schüller has so far escaped censure and remains a priest in good standing, and he credits progressive Catholics and the money they provide to the hierarchy.
Robert P. George, a Catholic legal scholar and ethicist who is the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, has been elected to head the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
He was appointed to the bipartisan commission in 2012 by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and is serving his first term as a commissioner.
George succeeds Katrina Lantos Swett, an appointee of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. She completed a one-year term as commission chair.
Fr. Helmut Schüller told the crowd gathered Wednesday in Chicago that young people "don't have patience. They say, 'We shouldn't wait; we should do it.' "
Retired Auxiliary Bishop Thad J. Jakubowksi of Chicago died Sunday at St. Mary of Providence Home, where he lived. He was 89.
A vigil is scheduled for Thursday at St. Robert Bellarmine Church, with a funeral Mass to be celebrated Friday at Holy Name Cathedral. Fr. Thomas Mulcrone, Chicago Fire Department chaplain, who lived with Jakubowksi at St. Mary of Providence, is to give the homily.
Jakubowksi was remembered as a pastor and teacher, someone who was direct and approachable.
During Vatican II, Msgr. Wilfrid Paradis worked with prominent figures such as Jesuit Fr. John Courtney Murray and Swiss theologian Fr. Hans Küng.