Holly Goodwin, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Colorado Springs, left, shares a moment with Rev. James Golka, a priest from Grand Island, Nebraska, right, who is being appointed to be the third Catholic bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, in Colorado Springs on Friday, April 30, 2021. Bishop-elect Golka, 54, will be taking the place of Bishop Michael John Sheridan, who is retiring at the age of 75 after serving as the diocesan bishop since January, 2003. Golka will be ordained bishop on June 29. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
New bishop of Biden s hometown mum on Communion question
NICOLE WINFIELD and LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press
April 30, 2021
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1of5FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 file photo, President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington. When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June 2021, they’ll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don’t partake of Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights. Evan Vucci/APShow MoreShow Less
Holly Goodwin, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Colorado Springs, left, shares a moment with Rev. James Golka, a priest from Grand Island, Nebraska, right, who is being appointed to be the third Catholic bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, in Colorado Springs on Friday, April 30, 2021. Bishop-elect Golka, 54, will be taking the place of Bishop Michael John Sheridan, who is retiring at the age of 75 after serving as the diocesan bishop since January, 2003. Golka will be ordained bishop on June 29. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
Chancey Bush/ The Gazette
Denver Newsroom, Nov 10, 2020 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- An undercover KGB agent tried to befriend ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick in the early 1980s, prompting the FBI to ask the rising churchman to exploit this connection to counter Soviet intelligence, according to claims in the Vatican’s report on McCarrick released Tuesday.
The Nov. 10 McCarrick Report offers detail on McCarrick’s church career and the sexual abuse his successful personality helped to conceal.
“In the early 1980s, a KGB agent who enjoyed diplomatic cover as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United Nations for the Soviet Union approached McCarrick, apparently to attempt to befriend him,” said the report, released by the Vatican Nov. 10. “McCarrick, who was initially unaware that the diplomat was also a KGB agent, was contacted by agents of the FBI, who asked him to serve as a counterintelligence asset with respect to the activities of the KGB.”
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