WASHINGTON – “Continue to speak the truth, and treat every human being with dignity,” said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) while hosting a meeting on May 1 with religious leaders from Ukraine. The USCCB welcomed representatives of The Ukrainian Council of the Churches of Religious Organizations (UCCRO)…
Reading 1 Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles inand made them stand before the Sanhedrin,the high priest questioned them,“We gave you strict orders, did we not,to stop teaching in that name?Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teachingand want to bring this man’s blood upon us.”But Peter…
ROME (CNS) — An AI-generated image of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as the pope “was not good,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in Rome. “I hope he didn’t have anything to do with that,” he told reporters before he entered Our Lady of Guadalupe Church where he celebrated Mass May 4.…
ROME (CNS) — As Catholics in Rome await the election of their new bishop, the pope, some of them celebrated Sunday Mass at their parishes with the cardinals who will enter a conclave May 7. When prelates are made cardinals, they are assigned a “titular” parish in Rome, which makes them members of the clergy…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the “must see” list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican. But as 133 of the world’s cardinals prepared to enter the conclave May 7 to elect the new pope, the Sistine Chapel was closed to visitors April 28. In…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the Catholic Church elects a new pope, a cardinal reminded his fellow electors that true Christian leadership begins not in control, but in surrender to mystery. “We so often feel like masters of God, perfect knowers of the truth, while we are only pilgrims to whom the Word has been…