A question of life and death looms for Amy Coney Barrett (The New York Times) Judge Barrett could find herself in an onerous tangle of principles and expectations. Judge Barrett is a devoted Catholic, and she has evinced a serious, thoughtful concern about how the morality of her faith ought to interact with the application of the law — specifically with regard to capital punishment…
Oldest living U.S. bishop dies at 99 (Perpetual U.S. Novena.org) Bishop Odore Joseph Gendron, age 99, Bishop Emeritus of Manchester, NH passed away on October 16, 2020. At the time of his passing, he was the oldest living bishop in the US…
Archbishop Sample leads rosary, conducts exorcism in Portland (CNS) Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. Hulsey paused for a moment, went to the window and gazed with folded hands, purple surgical gloves and all. “I’m not Catholic,” he said. “I just recently found God.” What Hulsey had witnessed was a morning procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to a city park where Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample offered a rosary for peace and conducted an exorcism for a city that has suffered riots for more than four months…
Connecticut priests take pride in ‘one of our own’ about to be beatified (CNS) Msgr. John J. Bevins has been praying a long time that a miracle would be attributed to the intercession of Father Michael J. McGivney and move him one step closer to sainthood. “I’ve been praying I would live long enough to see it,” he said. “I was elated. We are praying harder now for the second miracle of canonization.” The miracle needed for Father McGivney’s beatification was approved by the Vatican last May. The founder of the Knights of Columbus will be beatified Oct. 31 during a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut. He will be the first U.S. parish priest to be beatified and will be given the title “Blessed…”
