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‘It Is a Shock’: Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell Shot and Killed in Hacienda Heights, California…
HACIENDA HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — An auxiliary bishop with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Hacienda Heights, authorities confirmed. Bishop David O’Connell was shot and killed just before 1 p.m. inside a home in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Investigators said O’Connell, who was a priest and later a bishop in L.A. for 45 years, was found in a room with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. The sheriff’s department said detectives are investigating this as a suspicious death though no further details were released. Information regarding a suspect or suspects was also not immediately released. Earlier on Saturday, Archbishop José H. Gomez released a statement on ...
Miami archbishop offers to house exiled Nicaraguan priests and seminarians…
Monday, February 13, 2023 Ana Rodriguez Soto – Florida Catholic newspaper MIAMI | Archbishop Thomas Wenski spoke to the Florida Catholic Feb. 11, 2023, about the expected arrival in Miami of some of the political prisoners released by the Nicaraguan government and flown to the U.S. “Most of the people expelled were politicians or candidates for public office that [Daniel] Ortega locked up before the elections,” the archbishop said, but among them were “four or five priests, a couple of seminarians, a deacon and an organist.” Photographer: ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO | FC In this file photo, Archbishop Thomas Wenski poses in his office with Managua Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Baez, who visited April 26, 2019, after being forced to leave Nicaragua due to his outspoken support of those protesting Da...
We live in unsettled times, but God never abandons his people. We just need to act like we believe that…..
I’m a derivative writer. I wish I were creative. I wish I were ingenious. But my friends and colleagues, and others I admire, are just smarter than I am. This would be sad if it weren’t also consoling. I can’t fix the world, but I don’t need to. Neither do you. In the vast stream of history, individuals rarely seem to matter. . .except in the eyes of God. But of course that’s the one place that really does matter. So the implications for each of us are worth noting, and they’re captured best by a familiar cleric in a recent interview: Interviewer: In your opinion, what are the greatest areas of reform needed to renew the Church? Familiar cleric: Us; all of us. We’re the problem. Structures and policies are important, but people are deci...
Spain Passes Transgender Law Allowing Minors Treatment Without Parental Consent…
The law passed the Congress of Deputies despite opposition from advisory bodies during the legislative process. After its passage in the Senate, Spain’s lower house passed the “Law for the Real and Effective Equality of Trans Persons and for the Guarantee of LGTBI Rights,” which will allow transgender genital surgery and hormonal treatments from the age of 16 without parental consent. Known simply as the “Trans Law,” it was pushed by the socialist-communist ruling coalition with the backing of “LGTBI” pressure groups (lesbians, gays, transsexuals, bisexuals and intersex). The law passed the Congress of Deputies despite opposition from advisory bodies during the legislative process. Both the Council of State and the General Council of the Judiciary strongly opposed some of the provisions of...
10 Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2023…
Margaret Osborne Daily Correspondent Last year was an excellent one for amateur astronomers. Stargazers in the United States saw two total lunar eclipses, a spectacular “ring of fire” solar eclipse and a rare alignment of the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This year promises another amazing set of celestial events, including dark skies for the two most anticipated meteor showers: the Perseids and the Geminids. To watch these and other phenomena, all you’ll need is a dark location, weather-appropriate gear and occasionally a set of binoculars. To help you plan your nights out in 2023, we’ve compiled a list of the ten biggest celestial events of the year. February 2: Comet C/2022 E3 comes close to Earth Comet C/2022 E3 Dan Bartlett / NASA In early February, the comet C/202...
Martyrs everywhere, journalism in Venezuela, and the ‘truth’ on YouTube…
Happy Friday friends, There are many feasts marked in the calendar today, if you’re keeping track. It’s the feast of the seven holy founders of the Servites — the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If your festal tastes run to the Celtic, today is also the feast of St. Fintan of Clonenagh, who was one of those sixth-century Irish monastics whose faith wasn’t so much formed as forged under severe religious rule and penitential practice, and who did so much to make Ireland a thriving center of evangelization in subsequent centuries. It is also the feast of Blessed William Richardson of Hallam. Born in Yorkshire, he studied for the priesthood in Spain before being sent back to England at the height of the Elizabethan persecution. Once he was back home, he traveled under the name William And...
This advocate of “worldwide socialist planning” wants to put loving pet owners on a leash…
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“Being faithful” and “being pastoral” go hand-in-hand — pitting them against each other is wrong and dangerous…
COMMENTARY: The notion that doctrinal fidelity is somehow in tension or even at odds with pastoral concerns is both wrong and dangerous. Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared on the diocesan website. Edited for style, it is republished here with permission. In the wake of our Holy Father’s call for a more synodal Church, much has been written about Cardinal Robert McElroy’s recent piece in America magazine criticizing the Church for her “structures and cultures of exclusion.” I highly recommend the responses by Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, and I think Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver summarized the Church’s response well with the challenging ...
Why was a Canadian student expelled from Catholic school for opposing transgender bathroom policy?
The religious liberty rights of Canadian high school student Josh Alexander gained international attention earlier this month when his opposition to his Catholic high school’s transgender bathroom policy on biblical grounds led to his suspension and arrest. The 16-year-old’s case, which occurred in a school in eastern Ontario, also reveals that some Canadian Catholic schools are diverging from Church teaching with polices such as allowing students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity — and U.S. Catholic schools may be facing pressures to do the same. Alexander and his attorney plan to file a human rights complaint for violation of religious freedom, but in the court of public opinion there is both acceptance and resistance to gay and transgender ideology including bathroo...
8 Nicaraguan Priests Expelled by Ortega Regime Celebrate Mass for First Time in 6 Months…
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — The private chapel at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ imposing, multistoried building in the nation’s capital typically draws a stream of USCCB staff and visiting prelates who want to celebrate Mass and are pleased to take advantage of a convenient venue for that purpose. But on Feb. 10, the USCCB chapel was the first stop for eight exiled Nicaraguan priests who had been prevented from celebrating Mass for six months following their imprisonment by the Nicaraguan government. On Feb. 9, the previous day, the priests were taken from their prison cells and brought to Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport in Managua, where they were transported from their homeland to Washington, D.C., on a flight organized by the U.S. State Department. The priests were p...
Before he became pope, Pius XI conquered the Matterhorn — now, thanks to this drone, you can see what he saw…
[embedded content] The videographer hiked to the Hornli Hut and flew his drone the remaining 4,000ft vertical and 1 mile distance to the summit and down the ridgeline. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums
At Asbury University in Kentucky, a routine Protestant service last Wednesday has turned into a nonstop ‘spontaneous revival,’ with echoes going back to the Great Awakening in the 1730s …
WILMORE, Ky. (WKYT) – A days-long chapel service at Asbury University in Wilmore is still ongoing. It began on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and, on Monday, Feb. 13, it was still going. Prayers, praise, worship music and testimonies – all of it, people say, a movement they themselves could not have started. The service is being described as a revival, “a movement that only God could orchestrate and keep going.” What began with students has blossomed and grown to include people from all over the country. People from as far away as Oregon have heard about this and are showing up to sing, raise their hands in praise or kneel down to pray. “No big lights or big media or anything like that. It’s proof the Lord is working. Right now. Amazing to see. We just wanted to be a part of that desperate...
