Statement of Cardinal Gregory on Capitol protests (Archdiocese of Washington) Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, issued the following statement this evening on the protests at the U.S. Capitol: “Our United States Capitol is sacred ground and a place where people over the past centuries have rightly demonstrated, representing a wide variety of opinions. We Americans should honor the place where our nation’s laws and policies are debated and decided. We should feel violated when the legacy of freedom enshrined in that building is disrespected and desecrated…”
New York deacon punched in random subway attack (The New York Post) A man who said he “just felt like punching someone” did just that, randomly slugging a Catholic deacon in the face inside a Bronx subway station this week, cops said. Frederick Kurr, 74 — who serves at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Belmont section of the Bronx, according to police sources — was trying to go through the turnstile at the Kingsbridge Road subway station around 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said…
Cardinal Gregory, Sen.-elect Warnock have history of collaboration (NCR) When the Rev. Raphael Warnock arrives in the nation’s capital to take his Senate seat, he is likely to be welcomed by a collaborator from his home state of Georgia in the person of the city’s Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory. In 2015, when Gregory, then archbishop of Atlanta, released a sweeping action plan to implement Pope Francis’ groundbreaking environmental encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” he received the strong backing of Warnock. In fact, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock is senior pastor, went on to adopt parts of the archdiocese’s plan for its own congregation…
On Epiphany, pope calls for more time devoted to worship (Vatican News) “In our day, it is particularly necessary for us, both as individuals and communities, to devote more time to worship,” said Pope Francis at the Mass on Epiphany. “We need to learn ever better how to contemplate the Lord,” following the example of the Wise Men, the Magi, who came to Bethlehem to worship the Baby Jesus. “Like them,” the Pope said, “we want to fall down and worship the Lord.” Taking his cue from the liturgical readings for the day, Pope Francis focused on three phrases “that can help us to understand more fully what it means to be worshippers of the Lord: ‘to lift up our eyes,’ ‘to set out on a journey,’ and ‘to see…’”
