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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo and named Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany as Buffalo's apostolic administrator.
Many people are filled with joyful anticipation and festive good cheer right now. But some are apprehensive and may also experience heightened feelings of loneliness as Christmas approaches. Or perhaps they feel empty inside.
The March for Life, the annual rally in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women's suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria said Vatican officials have told him that the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been postponed.
A local teenager has written music that has been officially approved for use in the Catholic Mass. Matthew Brown, 15, a parishioner at St. Mark Church in Vienna, has played piano for Masses at the church since he was in sixth grade.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge and Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde joined the bishops of Region 4 in making their ad limina visit to the Vatican Dec. 2-6.
Bishop Emeritus Paul S. Loverde will accompany Bishop Michael F. Burbidge on the ad limina visit. For Bishop Loverde, this will be his sixth ad limina and first as a retired bishop.
Bishop Paul D. Sirba of Duluth, Minn., died at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth Dec. 1. He was 59.
A Nativity scene is a simple reminder of something astonishing: God became human to reveal the greatness of his love "by smiling and opening his arms to all," Pope Francis said in a letter on the meaning and importance of setting up Christmas cribs.
The example of St. Peter and the teaching of his successor encourage bishops to serve their flocks "willingly and generously," said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori.
