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Rocco Palmo

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4 years

The “Golden Child” comes to Rome – a blockbuster Curial move if ever there were one, Pope taps Manila’s Card “Chito” Tagle, 62, as Prefect of the Propaganda Fide (Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples), the head of church’s missionary efforts worldwide.

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If you could, please keep an urgent special intention in your prayers... you’ll understand when you hear it. 🕯

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While even senior prelates liberally deface the Pope in wake of today’s events, Canon 1373 is clear: “A person who publicly incites hatred or animosity against the Apostolic See… or who provokes disobedience against [it], is to be punished by interdict or other just penalties.”

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Quick thought: having been immersed in the US church’s “trail of tears” since 2002, more than practically any point over these 16 years, this day has felt like a ground-shift. Lord only knows where things go from here, but there’s no returning behind the “bright line” of this.

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Needing a new pair of his orthopedic shoes, Pope drops by pharmacy outside Vatican to buy them on his own:

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It was tough to see yesterday given photog spacing, but now it’s clear – for the Consistory, Card Wilton indeed wore the “Freeing the Spirit” cross designed by Fr Clarence Rivers, the father of the Black Catholic liturgical movement: (📸 @brojohnrusso )

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After LaCrosse priest becomes MAGA/anti-vax star, raising 6-figures for canonical defense after being placed on leave, +Callahan decree today removes Fr James Altman from his pastorate; additional 4-page norms levy further restrictions (viz), which a recourse to Rome would halt:

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What’s more, given the standard rule of crisis communications that you don’t leave in the middle of the storm, but ride it out, to lose both the Vatican’s top press hands (both quite devout) in mid-scandal appears to signal that something has become professionally untenable.

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5 years

As if the Vatican – let alone its now-merged media arm – needed more tumult, today’s departures of Greg Burke & his deputy Paloma Garcia from Press Office helm couldn’t come at a more fraught time, esp. with Feb. abuse summit likely to be Rome’s most-covered event since Conclave.

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7 years

However you voted, together we all can pray – here, the Prayer for the Nation first given 225 years ago this week by the US founding bishop:

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10 years

Priceless. #ARGvsSUI http://t.co/4dgofHnUyQ

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As at least some B16 “devotees” seem “reality challenged” on today’s news, remember the history: –In May 1977, Paul VI gave his last red hat to Joseph Ratzinger; –In November 2012, B16 (knowing he’d soon resign) gave his last one to his choice for Asia’s top post: Chito Tagle.

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Thought to be the first US priest claimed by coronavirus, Brooklyn pastor Fr Jorge Ortiz, 55, died of COVID tonight, parish announces; several other priests and lay staff in 1.9 million-member diocese have tested positive:

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Michigan Attorney General announces statewide abuse investigation of its seven dioceses (Detroit, Gaylord, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Marquette, Saginaw), becoming the 8th state to launch full-on probe since PA grand jury reported in August:

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8 years

For monthly Mercy Friday stop, Pope makes stealth visit to neonatal ICU of Rome hospital, blesses babies & staff:

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10 years

One of many potent images of the day – Pope and Patriarch praying at stone on which Jesus was prepped for burial: http://t.co/q4W9SthOcM

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A scholar of the Apocalypse by trade – and, more broadly, nobody’s “liberal” – Toronto’s Card Collins shreds US right’s agitation for congregational worship amid corona spread as “shallow” and “absolutely irresponsible.” Full interview:

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With Italy now 10 days into national lockdown – and the “long loneliness” just beginning Stateside – Italian bench has asked for a lit candle in the window of homes as a sign of solidarity amid “social distancing”…. As much as possible, it’s a sign worth repeating elsewhere.

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8 years

Silent throughout, Pope visits Auschwitz – prays at "Death Wall," St Maximilian Kolbe's cell:

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Reacting to Vatican nix of #USCCB18 votes, one ranking prelate said earlier this afternoon that “If Francis wanted to unite us, he just found the way to do it” – read: they’re all hopping mad. Per ops, key papal advisers Cards O’Malley, Cupich “blindsided” by move early this AM.

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4 years

Capping week of leaks, Vatican announces Pope to make private visit to Assisi on 3 October – the vigil of St Francis – to say Mass at Poverello’s tomb and sign his 2nd self-penned Encyclical, “Fratelli tutti” (“All brothers”): a text “on human fraternity and social friendship.”

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3 years

In wake of today’s audience (and Pope’s reported comment on Communion), Rhode Island’s statewide prelate – home-bishop of Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo – implicitly accuses Pope of weakness, likening POTUS to the infamous baby-killer who sought to hunt the infant Jesus:

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6 years

A line already floated by several lead US church figures over recent weeks, tonight’s development affirms that the gravest crisis modern American Catholicism has known is now upon us. Let us pray for the grace to repair God’s House in our midst.

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6 years

A “Nuclear” Bomb – in stunning indictment of Francis and no shortage of other old enemies both in Rome and the US, now-retired DC Nuncio +Viganò attempts a “Saturday Night Massacre”:

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3 years

In an unusual Sunday announcement, Pope elevates (and moves) Msgr Guido Marini, 56 – his lead Master of Ceremonies inherited from B16 – to bishop of Tortona, at the peripheries of +Guido’s native Genoa; no successor named as Pontifical MC.

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The crowning achievement of 35-year stewardship model in 120,000-member diocese ( ), Wichita ordains 10 new priests for 2nd year running, *boosting size of active presbyterate by 20 percent*:

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8 years

As young people converge for Jubilee gathering, Pope just pitched in to hear Confessions in Square for over an hour.

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6 years

Sister Jean strikes again. #Loyola #Sweet16

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As the Western world marks a year since COVID lockdown, in further proof of the Great Upending, US Catholicism’s most faithful & compelling TV news now comes from an out gay woman… now #1 on cable, to boot. Thanks to @maddow & Team – it’s just sparkling:

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6 years

SISTER JEAN STRIKES AGAIN – in win for the ages by the Little Jesuit Program That Could, 11th-seed #LoyolaChicago claims first slot in the #FinalFour 😮 All congrats to the Ramblers 🍾🎉🏅

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5 years

Habemus Ecclesia – We’ve Got a Church. #ChristCathedral

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In major talk on Amoris, USCCB Marriage/Family chair +Chaput tells US' Filipino priests “it does no one any good if we ‘accompany' someone over a cliff”:

‘Amoris Laetitia’ and the nature of mercy

In a speech today in Houston, Archbishop Chaput spoke about the challenges of the church today, the challenges Amoris itself may seem to create; and how priests need to respond as “missionaries of...

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As some have been chirping, yep, Whispers has been off its game of late… just not without reason – long story short, Dad’s been in the hospital for the last month & 1/2… Holy Week becomes almost too real in ICU. Things are gratefully starting to level. Prayers > noise, thanks!

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Quite possibly Whispers’ favorite op – a parish secretary who saw her boy make the bench – our beloved Mama Rita ( @bishopcoyne ’s Mom) went to her reward yesterday at 91... her last words: “Glory to God.” Well beyond her 7 kids, she was “the real MVP.” Darling, pray for us 🕯

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3 years

Doubling down on Synod’s enhanced role – and again employing synodality to “break the box” – Pope taps French Sr Nathalie Becquart, 51, as an Under-Secretary of the Synod; 1st woman to hold a bishop-level Curia post (as evidenced by today’s other pick):

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10 years

Priceless – Francis arrives at #Synod14 , Guards salute... but Pope wants a handshake. (via @JuergenErbacher ) http://t.co/zjlyRTt8GD

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This Easter Night, A “Sunshine” Effect – defying US Catholicism’s dark year, some 150,000 adults to join us at tonight’s Vigil; in a first, +Ed Burns’ 1.4 mil-member Dallas church tops national tally of RCIA classes, breaking long dominance of LA, Houston & +Wilton’s Atlanta.

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While it’s standard for Pope’s post-Angelus remarks to voice solidarity & prayers to global crisis-spots, what was anything but normal was today’s long word on US in the wake of Capitol attack – something only employed til now for the worst mass shootings. English translation:

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4 years

Lest there be any confusion among the faithful, the CDF operates on delegated authority from the Pope... not the other way around.

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From the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith June 3, 2003.....Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To Unions Between Homosexual Persons

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US' oldest priest at 103, Harrisburg's Msgr Vincent Topper marked his 80th of ord yesterday:

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“If you know someone who’s been abused, help me find them” –amid wide calls for penance in wake of McCarrick’s fall, PA grand-jury, USCCB Secretary +Aymond draws standing-room crowd for Mass of Repentance in New Orleans; homily:

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🚨 Note to Pastors – aiming to avert layoffs or furloughs of diocesan/parish staffs amid COVID’s fiscal crunch, Feds confirm that CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program is open to religious entities; SBA loans to be forgiven if *all* staff are retained:

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+George Murry SJ was made for this moment. That he’s been taken home instead adds to the shock & pain of our loss. He was a brilliant teacher, a damn good shepherd... and as he always (always) had something to say, a peerless op. Rest well, brother – we’ll miss you too much 🕯

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A rare figure with “crossover” appeal – a Black US bishop who celebrates 1962 Missal – Chicago Aux +Joe Perry tells Mundelein sems that, when a congregation all looks alike, “We should genuinely sense an ecclesial incompleteness and do something about it”:

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4 years

Given today’s news, among the mosaic wonders in St Louis’ “New Cathedral,” one piece speaks to the current moment – a niche commemorating Card Joseph Ritter recalls his 1947 integration of STL church’s schools, a decade before Brown v. Board ordered it in public institutions.

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6 years

Per Whispers op, June’s credible finding of abuse of a minor by Card McCarrick is now under added probe by CDF – a first in the case of a cardinal... given other noise around of late, meantime, all this likewise needs be said:

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5 years

From this scribe’s father-professor, Jaroslav Pelikan: "Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide.”

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4 years

While the sentiment expressed by Providence bishop – one of the few US prelates who’s disclosed his party registration ( ) – is popular with conservatives, a hierarch has no authority to judge the status of a member of the faithful outside his jurisdiction.

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2 years

13 years since Synod on the Word voted 4-1 to admit women to the ministry of Lector, only to be vetoed by B16 (), today’s papal commission of women in the role ended a long arc… as Francis preached on liberation from “rigidity”:

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60 years since being killed in captivity as an Army chaplain in Korea – and his cause now gaining steam – Fr Emil Kapaun’s remains to receive hero’s return to his native Wichita at month’s end; tickets open for arena vigil & Mass before Cathedral burial:

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8 years

On landing in Rome, Pope emerges with Syrian refugees he brought back (seated with papal party at plane's front)

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8 years

One brother: a great, saintly Pope… and his brother, The Greatest. Blessings and peace be upon them both. #Ali

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A “Nuclear” Bomb – in stunning indictment of Francis and no shortage of other old enemies both in Rome and the US, now-retired DC Nuncio +Viganò attempts a “Saturday Night Massacre”:

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7 years

In first reax to Salvadorean press on red hat, Card-des. Rosa Chavez says he "accepts in the name of Romero.... He deserves this glory."

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4 years

Having watched +Wilton for 20 years (dating to his USCCB Presidency), covered him for 15 – and knowing both his premium on conciliation & allergy to using an excessive comma, let alone word – today’s blistering, provocative comment is unlike anything I’ve ever seen him issue.

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4 years

In unusually incandescent form, DC’s +Wilton unloads on POTUS’ visit to JPII Shrine (a Knights of Columbus-owned entity) as a counter-witness to the example of the Pope-Saint, blasts last night’s use of tear-gas to clear streets for “photo opportunity”:

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“I am embarrassed to be a bishop” – in Savannah msg on Crisis 2.0, +Hartmayer (a Conventual Franciscan) says he can “never look upon the crucifix quite the same way” now, urges bench to “open the closed doors of secrecy to let in the Spirit of truth”:

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Topped by nearly 3,000 catechumens/candidates in the nation’s largest outpost (LA) and 2,000+ each in perennial class-leaders Houston and Atlanta, US church to receive some 150,000 new members at Easter Vigil – welcome to all!

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6 years

In a North Jersey church, you’ll find this window – JPII and McCarrick at the Giants Stadium altar in 1995... after these weeks, just one of the many things we can never see the same way as before. Lord, have mercy and heal us – help us repair Your house... again.

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After an election marked by record turnout, AP/CNN/NBC call it: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr – a member of St Joe’s on the Brandywine in the diocese of Wilmington – has defeated Donald Trump become the 46th President of the United States, the 2nd Catholic to hold the office 🇺🇸

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“Dear Buffalo: It’s Over” – after year of crisis & torment for Western NY church, Whispers ops confirm that +Malone set to resign on Wednesday:

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Lest anyone can use a lift given this Good Friday, in an exquisitely stealth move – this Week’s closest thing yet to a national ecclesial moment – Colbert ( @stephenathome ) fittingly marked Holy Thursday by slipping the Preparation of the Chalice into a late-night monologue:

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6 years

Just reminded about this – at Romero’s May 2015 beatification in San Salvador (after 30 years of waiting), a halo suddenly appeared in the sky as the decree was read....

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A traditional piece of the Philly handover, +Chaput escorts the newly-named 14th Bishop to the tomb of the 4th – St John Neumann, the lone US prelate to be elevated to the altars.

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Ahead of Newman’s Sainthood Sunday, something extraordinary is afoot: a sudden outbreak of unity in the moment – across the ecumenical divide, yet even more among Catholicism’s warring internal factions. Here’s hoping it can be built upon... it’s too priceless to let slip away.

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An act normally reserved for a single occasion – the death of the Pope – Vatican statement says Holy See joining Italy in lowering city-state’s flags to half-staff today to mark day of mourning over the nation’s coronavirus toll, now 11,600; 📸 via @AGisotti :

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The Fifth Archbishop of Boston, Archpriest of St Mary Major, most powerful of American prelates, signal figure of the gravest crisis US Church has ever known, Bernard Cardinal Law died at Midnight Wednesday in Rome at 86 after days-long vigil

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Amid ongoing “surprise & confusion” over sudden Beatification halt, early Thursday, a house op in Rome relayed that “Sheen cause is over” – read: permanently. Given the gravity of the report, Whispers sought a formal comment from the Holy See… ...6 hours later, no response.

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9 days after his body was removed from St Pat’s after years-long court fight, Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be beatified – at Roman Noon, Vatican reveals Pope’s approval of miracle decree: (Shown below, +Sheen’s new tomb in Peoria’s St Mary’s Cathedral.)

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“Today there is a great silence over the earth, a great silence, and stillness...” – the chief liturgical text for the year’s quietest day, the Office’s ancient, anonymous reading for Holy Saturday:

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1700 years after Neopolitan patron's death, blood of San Gennaro (St Januarius) again liquifies on his feast today:

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Note to Bench: despite your intent, this Church’s priority for the unborn has become instrumentalized, leading some Catholics to support suborning election fraud & a terrorist attack on our Capitol. Before things get any worse, you have a unique mandate to begin to fix it.

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Himself a Frenchman (born in Rennes, once a seminarian in Paris), as the 700 year-old symbol of Catholicism's “eldest daughter” burns into the night, Pope’s US Nuncio +Christophe Pierre to Whispers on Notre-Dame fire: “I am so sad.”

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While the Triduum rites (Easter inclusive) will take place in empty churches for much, if not most, of the Catholic world – starting in Rome – given CDW’s permit for an adaptation to the tightly scripted intentions of Good Friday, an extra petition has been issued for the US:

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The Sign of the Times – at one of the few ordinations not postponed amid pandemic, +Carlson, candidates and servers all masked at yesterday’s rites for 7 transitional deacons in an empty St Louis Cathedral (📸 @StLouisReview ):

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Baptizing 26 babies in the Sistine, Pope tells mothers "If they're hungry, feed them here – no problem."

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"The Window of the Father's House" – in JPII's steps, Francis appears at "Pope's Window" of Wojtyla's Krakow home:

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In astonishing statement as US bench begins ad limina visits to Rome, Nuncio +Pierre calls bishops to reflection on the degree to which they have integrated “the magisterium of Pope Francis” into the lives of their dioceses....

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Amid a day of a kind unknown in the history of the US Church – just the latest piece of a crisis engulfing the nation's largest faith – a brief word on how it’s going in the PA trenches… While survivors are the first victims of this unspeakable evil, they’re far from alone.

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2 months since first reporting into +Malone’s handling of abuse cases ( ), with Buffalo now under Federal probe – and as embattled prelate attempts to discredit media – on 60 Minutes, bishop’s secretary outs herself as whistleblower:

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Calling Card McCarrick allegations “a catastrophe for the church,” in 5pm statement, Pope’s lead N. American adviser @CardinalSean says “more than apologies” needed, urges "a strong and comprehensive policy to address bishops’ violations of celibacy... in cases involving adults.”

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In genuine shocker, Kansas City’s +Naumann upends USCCB tradition by taking Pro-Life chair over Chicago’s Card Cupich on 96-82 margin

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“Please save a life” – the top US prelate to be stricken with COVID, New Orleans’ +Aymond devotes a column to push back at resistance to masks, saying “caring for the public health – the common good – [is] acting, as Christ would, as a servant to others”:

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90 years old today, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI to mark milestone with Bavarian-style gathering of close friends Monday at his Vatican home.

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Next up: Kentucky – after consulting with Pennsylvania AG, Bluegrass State’s top prosecutor moves for Commonwealth-wide grand jury on abuse/cover-up in its four dioceses (Louisville, Covington, Lexington and Owensboro):

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From today's intimate Bavarian-fest for B16's 90th at Pope-emeritus' Vatican house, here's your money-shot (via @TilmannKk )

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Actually, the wait’s been even longer – per several Whispers ops, Card DiNardo requested a papal audience for USCCB Exec at the time of McCarrick’s resignation from the College (late July)... indeed, no answer yet – nor on the petition for Apostolic Visitation of US @morninganna

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At close of first-ever Papal #SimbangGabi Mass in St Peter’s, Pope gives an unscripted dismissal, calling Filipino diaspora to be “‘contrabandisti’ of the faith” – in English, the term means “smugglers” or “bootleggers.”

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At today’s Audience, Pope calls Italian priest murdered yesterday at 51 a “martyr of charity”; stabbed by a homeless man he served, Fr Roberto Malgesini was renowned for caring for the poor in his home-church:

Pope calls murdered priest a witness of charity - Vatican News

Toward the conclusion of the general audience, before greeting the Italian-speaking faithful, Pope Francis paused for a moment, to recall “Father ...

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With the context of McCarrick’s sped-up retirement ( ) only now clear – ie. 2005’s adult settlement – only now does an old Whispers story click: +Sambi tried to bar Ted from bearing crozier into Wuerl’s June '06 installation. After a spat, he still did so.

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Even if his feast yields to Sunday, 160 years ago today, the lone US bishop ever to be canonized – or beatified – died on a Philadelphia street-corner while doing “the secretary’s work.” St John Neumann was just 48. May his holiness help renew us again:

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The most striking Vatican scene since Benedict XVI’s departure upon resigning in 2013, the images of tonight’s Via Crucis in an empty St Peter’s Square are simply beyond words… and then there are the meditations: #GoodFriday 🕯

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“There is no time to waste” – in just-issued Boston statement on PA grand-jury, Vatican’s child-protection chief Card O’Malley says “Catholics have lost patience with” bishops on lack of accountability, urges “transformation” in handling prelates accused of cover-ups:

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At summit wrap-up briefing, +Scicluna says one of event’s main outcomes is a “very clear point in church policy” that “cover-up” is “equally egregious to abuse”:

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6 years

The US’ 1st-ever martyr – killed in his rectory in Guatemala on this date in 1981, and beatified in his native Oklahoma last year – today marks the first celebration of the feast of Blessed Stanley Rother (for now, technically restricted to OKC province):

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5 years

“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ "And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light & safer than a known way.’” #HappyNewYear

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3 years

A stark contrast to US bench’s 30-page Faithful Citizenship text (the substance of which hasn’t been touched since its 2007 passage), the Canadian bishops released their usual one-page voting guide just ahead of Monday’s Federal election:

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4 years

After some uncertainty over the shape of Thanksgiving Weekend rites (), earlier tonite Card-des. Wilton told prayer-circle with US’ Black Catholic leaders that Pope wants an “in-person Consistory, so I’m goin' to Rome... to hold up this banner” for them:

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6 years

The Marian title most prominently evoked by Saint-to-Be Paul VI after Vatican II, on eve of his 5th anniversary, Pope Francis declares universal Memorial to “Mary, Mother of the Church,” on the Monday after Pentecost:

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8 years

During plane presser, Pope showed drawing given him by a child refugee on Lesbos, saying "even the sun weeps" in it

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5 years

From Paris’ Abp @MichelAupetit : “To all the priests of Paris: The firefighters are still fighting to save the towers of Notre-Dame de Paris. The frame, the roof and the spire are consumed. Let us pray. If you wish, you can ring the bells of your churches to invite prayer.”

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3 years

Pope to bishops: “Responding to your requests, I take the firm decision to abrogate all the norms, instructions, permissions and customs that precede the present Motu proprio…” And then there’s this: in an X-ray of Rome’s concerns, TC was released only in Italian *and English*

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4 years

Per Whispers ops, “HABEMUS NELSON” – a “native” son who only became a star prelate on leaving his adopted city, Cleveland’s +Perez, 58, slated to return to Philly tomorrow as the 10th Archbishop upon +Chaput’s retirement:

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