Low-key British archbishop will succeed Cardinal Sarah in liturgy office (NCR) Pope Francis on May 27 named a relatively low-profile British prelate to replace Cardinal Robert Sarah as the leader of the Vatican office charged with overseeing most of the global Catholic Church’s liturgical rites. Archbishop Arthur Roche, who had served as the No. 2 official at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2012, is now the office’s prefect…
Oakland bishop robbed at gunpoint (KGO) The Oakland Police Department has launched an investigation after the city’s Catholic Bishop was robbed at gunpoint last Saturday a few blocks from his church. “A man pulled a gun on me and said give me your wallet,” said Michael Barber, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Oakland. “I was terrified, I was afraid, I thought ‘maybe this is it.'”…
USCCB after San Jose: ‘Something is fundamentally broken’ (CNA) Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said on Wednesday, May 26, that the tragic shootings at a rail yard in San Jose, CA, “reminds us once again that something fundamentally broken in our society and culture must be courageously examined and addressed…”
Prayers for healing, justice mark Floyd anniversary (CNS) George Floyd’s death while in police custody a year ago left “a hole in the hearts of his family and friends” and “a hole in the fabric of our society,” said the director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd May 25, the first anniversary of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. “Or maybe it just made the hole visible for all to see and witness,” the center’s Lawrence E. Couch wrote in a remembrance of the African American man who died after former Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, knelt on his neck for over 9 minutes…
Elderly Indian nun defies pandemic to feet the poor (UCANews) At the age of 83, Sister Elsie Vadakkekara never misses her appointment with the poor on the streets, not even during a pandemic lockdown. Summer, winter or in pouring monsoon rains, the Catholic nun is on the streets at midday every day to distribute food to mentally ill people living rough in her neighborhood in western India’s Gujarat state…
