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Los Angeles Catholic Biship David O’Connell was shot and killed on Saturday. Police responded to his home at the Hacienda Heights at 1 PM on Saturday and was pronounced dead at the scene. Angeles News reported: Archbishop José H. Gomez gave the update to parishioners gathered for Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Feb. 19, one day after the Irish-born bishop was found dead at his residence in Hacienda Heights. A statement was also released to news media Sunday morning. “We continue to pray for Bishop Dave, and for his family in Ireland, and we...

[Catholic Caucus] An Interview with His Excellency Bishop Vitus Huonder This interview was conducted by Fr. Lukas Weber on August 26, 2021 in Wangs, Switzerland. While the text had to be revised and translated, we have nevertheless tried to keep the spoken style as much as possible.Msgr. Huonder this year you will celebrate the 50th anniversary of your priesthood. Congratulations and thank you for agreeing to give us an interview so that we can get to know you a little better. Such an anniversary is, of course, an occasion to take a first look back at your childhood, at...

Cardinal Burke: Bishops Have ‘Sacred Duty’ to Apply Canon Law to Pro-Abortion Catholic PoliticiansCardinal Burke explained that he was speaking out because the issue was “a matter of life and death for the unborn and of eternal salvation for the Catholic politicians involved.”On the eve of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, a U.S. cardinal said that Catholic bishops have a “sacred duty” to apply canon law by advising pro-abortion politicians not to receive Holy Communion.In a 2,800-word statement issued on Oct. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke recalled his efforts to persuade Catholic politicians to defend the lives of...

[Catholic Caucus] No Rigidity, No Legalism: Lake Charles Bishop Implements Traditionis CustodesThere is no prohibition in either particular law or universal law against the celebration of any sacrament in the Roman Rite in any parish, chapel or oratory of his diocese, Lake Charles Bishop Glen Provost, Louisiana, writes in a decree (below).In his diocese, every priest can use the Roman Rite if he knows how to celebrate it and has a “basic knowledge” of Latin.Existing Roman Mass groups may continue as before and are dispensed from TC’s rule that parish churches must be avoided.In an accompanying letter, Provost explains that...

Bishop Attacks ‘Drug Jihad’ Against CatholicsPrelate breaks ranks with Pope Francis on Islam as 'religion of peace'KERALA, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - A senior Syro-Malabar bishop has broken ranks with Pope Francis and the Indian Catholic hierarchy to confront the "narcotics and love jihad" being waged by Islamic extremists against Catholics in the southern state of Kerala. Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt triggered a nationwide controversy after his Wednesday sermon warning against Muslim jihadis who use drugs and sex to groom and lure Catholic girls into Islam. The Syro-Malabar bishop was addressing a congregation at the famous archiepiscopal Marth Mariam Pilgrim Church in Kuravilangad,...

US bishop announces he won’t receive COVID jab: I will not ‘take a vaccine that I believe is wrong’Bishop Strickland called on Catholics to demand Big Pharma to produce vaccines which are ethical and are not "in any way connected to abortion." Thu Sep 9, 2021 - 4:06 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) –Bishop Joseph Strickland is once again condemning COVID jab mandates being pushed across the United States as a violation of Catholic teaching on free will and individual conscience rights. He also said that as far as he is concerned, he will never “take a vaccine that I believe is...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider grants religious exemption letter to avoid abortion-tainted jabsHis Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider has decided to offer a personalized affidavit affirming membership in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, which will help members to avoid abortion-tainted COVID-19 injections. (LifeSiteNews) – Many Catholics in the United States are concerned about being fired or otherwise forced to receive abortion-tainted vaccines. Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan has decided to provide affidavits certifying membership in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima. The Confraternity is opposed to abortion-tainted vaccines as a deeply religious held belief. The certificates are personalized with...

The rainbow has been co-opted as a sign of ‘rebellion against God’s commandments’: Bishop Strickland'The rainbow has been co-opted as a sign of sinful pride & rebellion against God’s commandments instead of a sign of hope.'July 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — TYLER, Texas, July 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas took to Twitter on Friday to condemn the use of the rainbow symbol by LGBT activists which he qualified as “a sign of sinful pride and rebellion against God’s commandments” whilst reminding the faithful of the rainbow’s original meaning and Christian origin. original meaning and Christian origin. Strickland...

US bishop prays ‘every day’ for Biden’s conversion on abortion'We're going to pray for our President ... for conversion, that Joe Biden suddenly wakes up and says ‘I’ve been wrong,’ and he publicly renounces his pro-choice position.'<WASHINGTON, D.C., April 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A U.S. Catholic bishop who is also a decorated Navy chaplain is publicly praying for President Joe Biden to convert from being pro-abortion to pro-life and to start adhering to Catholic teaching when it comes to respecting all human life, from womb to tomb.“We're going to pray for him every day, every Sunday Mass in the prayer...

Abp. Aquila condemns giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians, calls on Catholics to ‘take sin seriously’he Denver archbishop called on his brother bishops to be not afraid: 'Trading ‘civility’ and ‘engagement’ for eternal life is not a good trade, and it is especially negligent for me, as a bishop, to remain quiet when people I am called to love may be endangering their eternal souls.'DENVER, Colorado, April 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver is the latest prelate to denounce giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians and other dissident Catholics who persist in grave sin.In an opinion piece published Wednesday...

Texas bishop calls for prayer until election result is ‘officially authenticated’ .- While the U.S. bishops’ conference congratulated presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden on the election results this weekend, the bishop of Fort Worth has called for prayer, saying the vote tallies are not yet official.“This is still a time for prudence and patience as the results of the presidential election have not been officially authenticated,” Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth stated on Nov. 8. He called on Catholics to pray for peace if the results are challenged in court.“It appears that there will be recourse made in the courts so...

Catholic Bishop Drops Komen Support Over Planned Parenthood Ties Toledo, OH -- A Catholic bishop in Ohio says his "misgivings" about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation over its ties to the Planned Parenthood abortion business make it so he is suggesting that Catholics not support the organization. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/13/catholic-bishop-drops-komen-support-over-planned-parenthood-ties/

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he understands the attraction of arguments for the use of contraception in the developing world, in an apparent softening of the Church's line. But Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols went on to say it was not the Church's role to support such a short-term fix, adding it would continue to fight poverty, which often contributed to high birth rates. "I think when it comes to Third World poverty, and the great pressure into which many women are put by men, I can see the arguments why, in...

Bishop Martin D. Holley, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, issued a statement responding to a report by Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute showing that black women have abortions at five times the rate of white women. "The number one cause of death in the African American community has been abortion. We have lost over 13 million lives. To put that in perspective, it is one third of our present Black population," wrote the bishop. "It [abortion] clearly must be at the heart and center of our discussion of the survival of African American people." Bishop Holley serves as Chair of the Sub-Committee...

- Fr. Randolph Roque Calvo of the clergy of San Francisco, U.S.A., pastor of the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, as bishop of Reno (area 183,506, population 607,459, Catholics 91,973, priests 42, permanent deacons 11, religious 50), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Agana on the island of Guam in 1950 and ordained as a priest in 1977.

Catholic Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado offers communion. Sheridan says Catholics who vote for pro-abortion or pro-gay-marriage candidates should not receive communion. It began as a lone cry in the wilderness: In January, a relatively unknown Roman Catholic prelate ordered his priests to refuse Communion to Catholic politicians who supported a woman's right to abortion. The prelate, Raymond Burke, newly appointed as archbishop of St. Louis, had imposed that sanction the year before as a bishop in Wisconsin without attracting much notice. But his January directive would be different. This, after all, was a presidential election year, when the...

SAVANNAH - A Roman Catholic bishop who co-authored a statement opposing same-sex unions, approved by U.S. bishops last week, said Monday legal gay marriages would be "another diminishing of society, just like abortion." But Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Diocese of Savannah insisted the document, to be distributed to Catholic churches in pamphlet form, was not intended to condemn homosexuals. "We respect their dignity as persons," Boland said at a news conference. "We know that, with some individuals, it's not their choice to be gay. But at the same time a gay person, just like a heterosexual person, may...

CatholiA Good Shepherd Instructs His Flock From the Most Reverend John Michael Botean, Bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St. George in Canton: Because such a moment of moral crisis has arisen for us, beloved Romanian Catholics, I must now speak to you as your bishop. Please be aware that I am not speaking to you as a theologian or as a private Christian voicing his opinion, nor by any means am I speaking to you as a political partisan. I am speaking to you solely as your bishop with the authority and responsibility I, though a sinner, have...

Statement on War with Iraq Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory President United States Conference of Catholic Bishops March 19, 2003 Our nation is on the brink of war. We worked and prayed and hoped that war would be avoided. The task now is to work and pray and hope that war's deadly consequences will be limited, that civilian life will be protected, that weapons of mass destruction will be eliminated, and that the people of Iraq soon will enjoy a peace with freedom and justice. A time for prayer and solidarity. In time of war, our first obligation is...

CANTON, Mar 18, 03 (CWNews.com) -- An American Catholic bishop has forbidden his flock from participating or cooperating in military action against Iraq, under pain of mortal sin. Bishop John Michael Botean, the head of the Romanian Catholic eparchy (diocese) of St. George in Canton, Ohio-- which has jurisdiction over all Byzantine-rite Romanian Catholics living in the US-- invoked the full measure of his authority in a Lenten Letter to his people. The bishop declared with "moral certainty" that the proposed attack on Iraq "does not meet even the minimal standards of the Catholic just-war theory." The bishop announced that...