Today at noon time in Rome, the Holy Father named Father Jacques Fabre, CS the 14th Bishop of Charleston. The Diocese was established by Pope Pius VII on July 11, 1820, and it covered 142,000 square miles across the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Today, that same territory is comprised of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Dioceses of Savannah, Raleigh and Charlotte. Bishop-elect Fabre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the early 1990s, he was a chaplain... Read more
War in Ukraine, Pope Francis Prays for Peace
It appears that war is inevitable in Ukraine. When I spent time in that beautiful country, I quickly learned that Ukrainians overwhelmingly wished to affiliate with Western Europe rather than with Russia, but that this desire was not unanimous. I spent time in Western Ukraine which suffered greatly during Soviet times, is predominantly Catholic, and where there is a great desire to renew Ukrainian culture. Eastern Ukraine, closer to Russia, benefited greatly from industrialization during Soviet times (that is where... Read more