2018-07-01T21:14:38-04:00

Last updated on: July 1, 2018 at 9:14 pm   By

From the Diocese of Sacramento Facebook page:  On Saturday, June 30, Bishop Jaime Soto ordained 27 men to the Order of Permanent Deacons at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento. We pray for and congratulate our Diocese’s newly ordained Permanent Deacons: Omar Bardales, Larry Bertrand, Gary Brys, David Campbell, Shawn Carter, Kenneth Crawford, Rommel Declines, Julian Delgado, Román Diaz, Dan Haverty, Eric Hintz, Michael Holley, Keith Johnson, David Kraatz, Atonio Latu, Al Llenos, Greg McAvoy-Jensen, Jeffrey McClure, Daniel Patterson, Edward Pecis, Paul... Read more

2018-07-01T21:43:34-04:00

Last updated on: July 1, 2018 at 9:43 pm   By

His name was Gerald Fischman. When I first met him, we were both students at the University of Maryland, where we worked on the student newpaper, the Diamondback. I wasn’t very close to him. In part, that’s because he was a hard person to get to know. He was a couple years older than me, and one of the most eccentric characters on campus—far from what you’d expect a college student to look like in the ‘70s. Gerald was short,... Read more

2018-06-30T14:23:47-04:00

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 2:23 pm   By

From Vatican Media:  There was great celebration on Friday in the Vatican when some 280 poor people were invited to a dinner by new Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the official almsgiver of the Pope, who was made cardinal by Pope Francis at the Consistory the previous day, June 28th. Pope Francis surprised Cardinal Krajewski, his guests and volunteers with a visit and joined them at table at the Vatican employees’ canteen.  “I came for the poor, not for you,” a smiling... Read more

2018-06-30T12:01:44-04:00

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 12:01 pm   By

With the Supreme Court poised to get a new justice before the end of the year, it’s entirely possible SCOTUS will revisit the abortion issue and that someone, somewhere will seek to have Roe struck down. The Washington Post offers this helpful breakdown (check the link for a map), regarding the legal nuances involved: Regulating abortion would revert fully to state legislatures, many of which have become more conservative and have passed more than 400 laws that restrict access in... Read more

2018-06-30T11:23:20-04:00

Last updated on: June 30, 2018 at 11:23 am   By

This most familiar of Catholic hymns serves as our recessional this weekend — and I doubt there are many in the pews who don’t know it. Its history is interesting — and it turns out its popularity in the United States owes much to immigration: The German Catholic priest Ignaz Franz (de) wrote the original German lyrics in 1771 as a paraphrase of the Te Deum, a Christian hymn in Latin from the 4th century. It became an inherent part of major Christian ceremonial occasions, mainly as a... Read more

2018-06-29T18:15:38-04:00

Last updated on: June 29, 2018 at 6:15 pm   By

Details:  In an age-old rite, 11 men were ordained permanent deacons June 9 as the hundreds who filled the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception watched. The men were formally accepted as candidates to the diaconate in June 2015 by Vicar General Father Charles Rowe, acting on behalf of Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, then-apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Once accepted, Brian Buckner, Robert Falke, Joshua Fultz, James Koger, Michael Koile, Fred Lange, Paul... Read more

2018-06-29T11:15:02-04:00

Last updated on: June 29, 2018 at 11:15 am   By

Details:  The pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Bath encouraged a teen he was counseling via online video to take his clothes off and perform sex acts, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Philadelphia alleges. The suit charges that Monsignor Francis Nave persuaded the boy, who was 16 when the online counseling sessions began in 2011, to disrobe and commit sex acts. In a statement Wednesday, the Allentown Diocese said it was unaware of the allegations or the lawsuit before hearing... Read more

2018-06-28T08:59:31-04:00

Last updated on: June 28, 2018 at 8:59 am   By

The latest installment in Phillip Pullella’s wide-ranging interview with Pope Francis for Reuters: When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran into opposition from the Catholic Church’s male-dominated hierarchy. “I had to fight,” Francis said in a rare, two-hour interview with Reuters in his residence this month. Asked why the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, then three years into his papacy, could not put a... Read more

2018-06-27T12:29:07-04:00

Last updated on: June 27, 2018 at 12:29 pm   By

From NCR: The president of Pope Francis’ commission to study the history of women deacons in the Catholic Church says his group is not planning to advise the pontiff on whether to reinstitute the practice of ordaining women as deacons. “The Holy Father did not ask us to study if women could be deacons,” said Cardinal-designate Luis Ladaria. “The Holy Father asked us to search to say in a clear way the issues … that were present in the early... Read more

2018-06-26T21:53:57-04:00

Last updated on: June 26, 2018 at 9:53 pm   By

This was Rep. Maxine Waters speaking at a rally Saturday, in a now-infamous diatribe against Donald Trump: The American people have put up with this president long enough. What more do we need to see? What more lies do we need to hear? If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! She later explained on TV:... Read more

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