In his August 17, 2018 letter to the people of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich labeled the recently-released Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report a “catalogue of horrors.” Cupich’s letter continued: “And yet whatever words we may use to describe the anguish of reading about these heinous acts, they can never capture the reality of suffering endured […]
Priests in the News
Sadly we report the news of the murder of another member of the Priesthood. The body of Jesuit priest, Father Carlos Riudavets Montes, was found on August 10 in the kitchen of Valentín Salegui School in Yamakentsa, Perú, Bagua province. Father Riudavets spent a lifetime working among the indigenous people in Peru’s Amazonian area, first […]
Got a leaky roof at your Parish and looking for ways to raise money for the costly repair? Look no further than the efforts of Father Rob Schultz, Pastor at St. Beatrice Parish in Schiller Park, a Chicago suburb. Fr. Schultz signed up for his 100th triathlon on August 5, 2018, and decided to use the […]
Retired Bishop of Dallas, the Most Rev.Charles V. Grahmann, died August 14 at St. Luke Baptist Hospital in San Antonio while undergoing surgery to insert a stent in his heart. Grahmann celebrated Mass earlier that morning at Casa de Padres, a retirement home for clergy in San Antonio, and received the Sacrament of the Anointing […]
Standing-Room-Only Crowd Honors Life of Archbishop Emeritus Raymond Hunthausen
Seattle Archbishop Emeritus Raymond G. Hunthausen was laid to rest on August 1 following a Funeral Mass in Helena, Montana and a standing-room-only Mass of Christian Burial at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. As he began his homily, Father Michael G. Ryan, Pastor of St. James Cathedral and a longtime friend and confidant to the Archbishop, noted that […]
Update on Father Esequiel Sanchez – Survivor of Aeromexico Plane Crash
Father Esequiel Sanchez, Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines Illinois, was one of 103 miraculous survivors of an Aeromexico plane crash outside Durango, Mexico on July 31, 2018. Sanchez suffered multiple fractures to his arm requiring surgery and insertion of a metal plate, to which he commented: “I’ll be […]
