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Cardinal McCarrick to Seek Retirement at 75 Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, said yesterday he is interested in retiring when he turns 75 in July. "I'll be writing my [retirement] letter, and I'm certainly open to retirement. I have a thousand things I could do, or at least I think I could do," Cardinal McCarrick told The Washington Times yesterday. His retirement, however, is the pope's decision...[ Click here to finish reading the article.]

Cardinal Ratzinger said, "The minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it." He did not say 'could,' or 'may,' but that he "must." Barbara Kralis Barbara Kralis July 6, 2004 Is it possible that after so much scandal and hurt in the Catholic Church, Bishop Wilton Gregory and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick would withhold and distort an important memo written by the head of the Vatican's second most important dicastery of the Roman Curia? [1] The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote the memo in English expressly for the USCCB's use...

IRAQ OPPORTUNIST Last week the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry made much of the fact that their boy spoke with the father of Nicholas Berg, the American murdered by Muslim extremists with ties to al Qaeda. Kerry, who was campaigning in Arkansas with Wesley Clark spoke by phone to Michael Berg for about ten minutes. Kerry's camp claimed that Berg had "reached out" to Kerry and that Kerry had returned the phone call. But according to a Kerry campaign staffer, it was the campaign that initiated the call to Berg. "People in our Pennsylvania operation had...

McCarrickAbortion Foes Target Cardinal McCarrick Abortion Foes Target Cardinal McCarrick Friday May 07, 2004 3:16pm  Washington (AP) - The Archbishop of Washington is under attack from an anti-abortion group. American Life League is upset that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is reluctant to deny Communion to Roman Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. So they've taken out ads which read, "You can't be both Catholic and pro-abortion!" The Stafford, Virginia-based group ran the ad in Thursday's Washington Times, and plans to put it in a Catholic weekly. McCarrick is the spiritual leader of more than half-million Catholics in D.C. and suburban Maryland....

Cardinal, in meeting with Kerry, basically says someone in danger of going to hell is "none of his business" By Gary L. Morella There is not much to comment on in the enclosed report from CWN ( http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28963 )regarding Cardinal McCarrick's meeting with Kerry because, if this report is accurate, McCarrick is NOT a Catholic! Catholics, especially Catholic priests, care about the danger of people going to hell. Kerry, per Canon law, deserves formal excommunication many times over for this public sins, which he flouts. If Kerry's bishop (O'Malley) or Cardinal McCarrick truly cared for his immortal soul they would...

Dear Friends, I'm writing to update you on an important development in the Church in the U.S. -- I'd like you to be a part of this initiative. Next Monday, September 8, I will be in Washington, D.C., for a special meeting of about forty Catholic lay leaders as well as Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington and Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. This meeting will be a unique opportunity for us to personally voice our questions, concerns about problems, and recommendations for improving the situation in the Church directly to these key bishops. The architect of...

A visit to Beijing by a leading US Catholic leader has fuelled speculation on the prospects of greater religious freedom in China. Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, spent three days in Beijing earlier this week on what was ostensibly a private visit. He became the first cardinal from a western country to visit the mainland since relations between China and the Vatican turned frosty after a dispute over canonisation in October 2000. Church sources on the mainland noted Cardinal McCarrick's visit to Beijing came after the US Congressional Executive Commission on China held a hearing titled "Will...

Washington, D.C. – A sung Traditional Latin Mass, that was scheduled for 12:30, Sunday, June 22 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and that was expected to draw hundreds of Catholics, was rescheduled and then forbidden to take place.The Mass was part of a series of events for a pilgrimage sponsored by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter that included priests, seminarians, and laymen. The pilgrimage began June 20 in Barnesvilee, Md., and traveled down the Ohio canal to the shrine.Pilgrims, and other Catholics from the area, who went to the shrine for the Old Mass, eventually had...