Two years before long-
standing rumors about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick leapt into headlines worldwide, America's most outspoken activist on clergy sexual abuse, Richard Sipe, met with his local bishop San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy.
Irina, from Ukraine, and Albina, from Russia, hold the cross at Rome s Colosseum, April 15, 2022. / Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.Rome Newsroom, Apr 15, 2022 / 14:38 pm (CNA).The Vatican adapted Pope Francis Way of the Cross on Good Friday after an outcry in Ukraine over a Station involving Ukrainian and Russian families.The meditation for the 13th Station, "Jesus dies on the Cross," was written by members of a Ukrainian and a Russian family. In the event, the meditation was not read out during the Via Crucis at Rome s Colosseum on April 15. In its place, a reader said: "In the face of death, silence is more eloquent than words. Let us therefore pause in prayerful silence and each one in his heart pray for peace in the world."During the silence, the cross was held tightly by two friends, Irina, from Ukraine, and Albina, from Russia. The women, who work together at the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital in Rome, looked at each other as they held th
Malta rejoices at the election of Roberta Metsola as President of the European Parliament. "Congratulations and prayers", "God bless", Archbishop Charles Scicluna wrote in a post to the new president, who was educated at St Aloysius College in Birkirkara, run by the Jesuits, as Father Antonio Spadaro, director of La