As many expected, presidential contest not settled after Election Day November 4, 2020By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News The U.S. remains in uncertainty about the presidential race after Election Day, as a counting of the vote continues, showing Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead in electoral votes, but not by much.
Vandalism at El Paso Cathedral destroys nearly 90-year-old statue of Jesus September 17, 2020By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Authorities in El Paso, Texas, have apprehended a suspect who is said to have entered the border city’s St. Patrick Cathedral Sept. 15 and destroyed an almost 90-year statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
New accusation surfaces against former U.S. prelate McCarrick July 23, 2020By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: McCarrick Report, News, World News A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate, leveling a new accusation that he allegedly abused its new client as a boy at a beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in the early 1980s.
Catholic communities mourn death of son of a federal judge killed at home July 21, 2020By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Schools and a Catholic parish in New Jersey expressed pain but also offered prayers following the killing of 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, son of a federal judge, who was a student at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
Indiana priest suspended after derogatory remarks about protesters July 2, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, World News The bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana, has suspended a priest from public ministry after the pastor referred to Black Lives Matters protesters as “maggots and parasites” in a Sunday bulletin.
Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says June 29, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words June 25 about the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the U.S. amounts to sending them to their death.
Detroit archdiocese responds to derogatory attacks on Washington archbishop June 15, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, World News Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron and the Archdiocese of Detroit in a June 11 statement condemned “racist and derogatory” language used by a fringe organization located in the archdiocese that bills itself as Catholic and posted a video calling the archbishop of Washington an “African Queen,” saying he is an “accused homosexual.”
Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say June 12, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, Racial Justice, World News Catholic activist Martin Gugino long has been anti-war, anti-hunger, anti-violence, when it comes to opposing social ills, but the one “anti” that doesn’t fit the bill is the “antifa” moniker President Donald Trump tried to pin on him in a June 9 tweet, friends say.
Josephites among religious and laity joining ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests June 8, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News “The Catholic voice as a group, as a family needs to be heard,” said Father Cornelius Ejiogu, a member of the Baltimore-based Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, best known as the Josephites.
After ‘taking a knee,’ border bishop gets a call from the pope June 4, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News “The Holy Father said that he wanted to congratulate me for the words I am saying,” Bishop Seitz said,
Bishop reminds seafarers they are ‘not forgotten’ even amid pandemic May 22, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, World News The bishop, directing his prayer to the maritime workers, urged them to “know that you are not forgotten, know of our love for you each and every day.”
Bishops urge closer look at coronavirus deaths in black communities May 4, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, World News It is both appropriate and responsible for the Catholic Church to add its voice to those calling for a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the underlying causes and the effects of this virus on these communities, which continue to suffer from longstanding inequities in basic human rights such as access to quality healthcare,” Archbishop Lori said.
