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On June 20, 2018, the Archdiocese of New York announced that an allegation of abuse of a male teenager, against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick when he was a New York priest nearly 50 years ago, was deemed “credible and substantiated.”
Over the past weeks I, alongside so many others, have been deeply upset to hear of credible and substantiated allegations of sexual abuse by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. As more accusations have come forward, with stunning similarity and detail, Cardinal McCarrick offered his resignation from the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis directed now-Archbishop McCarrick to live in private, observing prayer and penance until a canonical trial is carried out.
The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation's Bensalem motherhouse, in the coming weeks to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge opened the five-day Quo Vadis Summer Discernment Camp by celebrating Mass in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., July 29.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and has ordered him to maintain "a life of prayer and penance" until a canonical trial examines accusations that he sexually abused minors.
Trading their albs for T-shirts and shorts on the first sunny day in a week, diocesan altar servers attended the annual altar server picnic at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston July 26.
A Paulist priest is honored as the Pastoral Musician of the Year.
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See told a Washington audience July 24 that "promoting and securing religious freedom as a human right is a shared priority" of the Vatican and the United States.
Seventy-seven middle-school students spent two hours picking corn for the poor at Chandler Farms in Montross and Parker Farms in Colonial Beach.
Gospel commentary: Stay hungry, my friends
In these weeks of summer, the church brings to our attention the very special teaching of Jesus in chapter 6 of St. John’s Gospel. This Sunday, we find crowds of satisfied people who are ready to be satisfied again.