Cardinal Gregory blesses D.C. shrine’s replacement of vandalized Mary statue October 24, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the Rosary Walk and Garden outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was vandalized and destroyed beyond repair, a replacement statue was blessed Oct. 23 by Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory.
Cardinal Gregory stresses need for believers to fight against racism October 20, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News atholics, and all people of faith, must engage in the “critically important work” of fighting injustice, racism and other societal ills that prevent people from living in peace, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said in an Oct. 13 address at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
Prayers offered for victims of Ukraine war, calls for peace renewed September 23, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington joined Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia Sept. 21 for an ecumenical prayer service to remember those who have been killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to renew calls for peace for that war-ravaged nation.
Principal calls vandalism at Catholic school in Washington ‘a hate crime’ August 15, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling “a hate crime.”
Panel: Gun violence is pro-life issue that sensible gun laws must address June 9, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News Catholic leaders in an online discussion June 8 urged the faithful to look at gun violence as a pro-life issue, address the roots of racist thinking that promotes such violence and press for commonsense gun laws.
Cardinal Gregory urges reflection on ‘weighty moral question’ of capital punishment April 19, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington venerated the cross of Jesus and urged the faithful to “consider carefully the impact that capital punishment has on us as a society.”
Cardinal prays on CNN program marking 500,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. February 23, 2021By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News During a Feb. 22 evening program on CNN, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a prayer for those who have died from COVID-19 asking God to “grant enteral peace to all our sisters and brothers lost to this disease.”
At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19 January 20, 2021By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News Saying the nation “reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year,” Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered the invocation at a pre-inauguration memorial service Jan. 19 to honor and remember the more than 400,000 Americans who have succumbed to COVID-19.
Archbishop says nation is at ‘pivotal juncture’ in racial justice struggle August 28, 2020By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory announced during the Mass an archdiocesan initiative to “fight against racial injustice everywhere.”
Montgomery County official rescinds previous directive blocking school reopening August 12, 2020By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools The Archdiocese of Washington’s Catholic Schools Office hailed an Aug. 7 announcement by a Montgomery County health officer that he has rescinded his previous directives forbidding private and religious schools from opening to in-person instruction at the start of the school year.
Montgomery County official says in new decree schools cannot open before Oct. 1 August 7, 2020By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News Citing regulations to circumvent Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s related Aug. 3 emergency order, Montgomery County’s health officer issued a new directive Aug. 5 again stating that due to increasing rates in the spread of COVID-19, nonpublic schools there cannot reopen for in-person instruction until at least Oct. 1.
Maryland governor overturns directive delaying school opening August 5, 2020By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools The Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Schools Office hailed the Aug. 3 emergency order by Maryland’s governor to override a Montgomery County Health Department blanket directive that would have kept nonpublic schools from reopening for in-person instruction through at least Oct. 1.
