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Month: February 2022

Pope pleads for Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine

Pope Francis has renewed his appeal for the entire Catholic Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in Ukraine. In his Sunday Angelus, the Pontiff called upon the war parties to turn away from the “diabolical and perverse logic of weapons”. “Many times we have prayed that this

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Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I 1 Pt 1:3-9

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, u…

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Cardinal Dolan visits Ukrainian church in NYC in sign of solidarity

Just before Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York left St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Feb. 27 he put his arm around Bishop Paul Chomnycky of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, and said, “you let me know how we can help.”

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The Order of Malta has the right to control its affairs

The Pope’s five-year intervention in the affairs of the Order of Malta has not been particularly happy. Some of the Order’s knights and dames feel that the effect of his involvement in its affairs and constitution has been to diminish its autonomy and amounts to an attempt to turn a sovereign order with a unique

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The US Church must encourage freedom from Covid restrictions

As the number of people becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 continues to fall given the mildness of the Omicron variant relative to earlier strains of the virus, states and local governments are gradually lifting some of the more onerous restrictions on normal life. In the Church, individual bishops’ conferences are obliged to respect

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