Category: Cardinal Wilton Gregory

Cardinal Gregory blesses shrine’s replacement of vandalized Mary statue

by bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Statues, Vandalism | 0 |

Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima 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

by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Black Catholics, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News | 0 |

Catholics, 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.

Catholic Mobilizing Network honors advocates working to end death penalty

by bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, News | 0 |

At an Oct. 10 ceremony at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, Catholic advocates working to bring an end to the death penalty acknowledged leaders in the fight against capital punishment in the U.S.

At Red Mass, lawyers, jurists counseled to seek Holy Spirit’s guidance

by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Red Mass | 0 |

Just as people seek wise counsel in legal matters, so too should people prayerfully seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus called the Counselor, said Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre, New York.

Ukrainian Catholic bishop urges West not to play by Putin’s rules

by bcadmin | Sep 22, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Church in the US, lead, News, President Joe Biden, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |

Ukraine’s top-ranking Catholic prelate in the United States is urging continued prayers for the nation, and warning world leaders not to “play the game according to [Russian President Vladimir Putin’s] rules.”

Mother Teresa filmmaker says new documentary is ‘work of the Holy Spirit’

by bcadmin | Sep 18, 2022 | Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Documentary, Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa, News | 0 |

A new documentary about St. Teresa of Kolkata, produced by the Knights of Columbus, aims to show how her mission and spirit continues in the work of her order, the Missionaries of Charity.

History can foster understanding of present racial unrest, scholars say

by bcadmin | Sep 10, 2022 | Black Catholics, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Georgetown University, Jesuits, News, Racism | 0 |

Georgetown officials launched the Georgetown Slavery Archive in 2016 and put it online so that people will have access to it, because they thought it was important to help people understand the past as a way of securing the future.

Church leaders urged to be trailblazers in addressing systemic racism

by bcadmin | Aug 7, 2022 | Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, Black Catholics, Black Lives Matter, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Racism | 0 |

When deadly, racially motivated violence erupted in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a Pittsburgh synagogue, a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and most recently in Buffalo, New York, Catholic Church leaders have responded.

Cardinal Gregory issues norms to implement pope’s ‘Traditionis Custodes’

by bcadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Latin Mass, News | 0 |

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington promulgated liturgical norms July 22 for implementing Pope Francis’ apostolic letter “Traditionis Custodes” (“Guardians of the Tradition”).

DC parish rues Latin Mass ban, warns of financial and membership losses

by bcadmin | Jul 25, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Church in the US, Latin Mass, lead, News, Traditionis custodes | 0 |

For St. Mary Mother of God Parish in Washington D.C. the new restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass make parish vitality a question mark, and closure isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Gregory permits, but also hems in, celebration of Latin Mass in D.C.

by bcadmin | Jul 23, 2022 | Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Church in the US, Latin Mass, lead, News, Pope Francis, Traditionis custodes | 0 |

Come September 21 celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Washington will be limited to three non-parochial churches on Sundays.

As charter turns 20, trust in bishops is slow to return, cardinal says

by bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic News Service, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, Church in the US, clergy sex abuse crisis, News, Theodore McCarrick, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |

The nation’s Catholic bishops have made progress in regaining the trust of the laity since approving a groundbreaking document in response to the clergy sexual abuse crisis two decades ago.