Pope names new archbishop of Paris (CNA) Pope Francis on Tuesday named Archbishop Laurent Ulrich as the new Catholic archbishop of Paris. Ulrich, the archbishop of Lille, northern France, succeeds Archbishop Michel Aupetit, who resigned in December. The new Paris archbishop was born in 1951 and ordained a priest of the diocese of Dijon, eastern France, in 1979…
Pope Francis comments on knee pain (CNA) While meeting with members of the Trinitarian order on Monday, Pope Francis referred to his knee ailment, which kept him from standing to greet all of them. “After the photo I will greet you, but excuse me, I have to do it sitting, not on foot, because of the knee … It is that malady that was once called ‘nun’s pain’, because it was the time in which the nuns prayed, and for so much praying on their knees they got sick! This will heal, but in the meantime we have to do things right,” he said April 25 in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall to participants in the International Trinitarian Solidarity Conference…
Church in Spain again asks forgiveness for sex abuse (CNA) During his address opening the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s Plenary Assembly on Monday, Cardinal Juan José Omella Omella of Barcelona expressed his pain over the sexual abuse committed by members of the Church and his desire to clarify what happened. “The Church expresses its profound pain and once again asks for forgiveness for the crimes committed by our brothers,” Cardinal Omella, the conference president, said April 25…
Priest says he buried aborted fetuses (The Washington Post) The first time the Rev. William Kuchinsky performed a funeral Mass outside a parish, it was in the basement kitchen of a Capitol Hill rowhouse. He prayed over dozens of tiny blue circular, plastic containers. They held more than 100 human fetuses, and the service was a secret…
“Wizard of Oz” dress goes on display before auction (The New York Times) “The dress was a legend, but no one had seen it since the late 1980s,’’ Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, the dean of the school of music, drama and art at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., said on Friday. A priest who headed the drama department had been given the dress in 1973, but the university lost track of it. Now the university hopes to auction it off for at least $1.2 million, with the money going to pay for a new film program. It goes on display on Saturday at Bonhams New York, 580 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, where the public can see it through April 29. Then, on May 24, it will be presented at the “Bonhams Classic Hollywood: Film and Television” auction in Los Angeles, Bonhams announced this week…
