By Andrea Shalal
(Reuters) – Wilton Gregory, the first African American to be named as cardinal and known as a refined diplomat, made headlines when he blasted President Donald Trump’s photo opportunity hoisting a Bible at a Washington church after police used tear gas to clear demonstrators in June.
Gregory, who was among 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday, was installed as the first Black archbishop of Washington, D.C. in 2019. He turns 73 just days after the naming ceremony for new cardinals next month.
Pope Francis on Sunday said Gregory was picked with others from Rwanda, the Philippines and elsewhere to wear the revered red cap.
A framed picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe is seen at a house near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in 2016 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)
CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2020 / 06:48 pm (CNA).- The Feast of St. Juan Diego, an Aztec peasant who witnessed an indigenous apparition of the Virgin Mary and later became the first canonized indigenous American saint, is a time for hope and healing for Native Americans and for recognition of the importance of Our Lady of Guadalupe in bringing Christ to the New World, a Native American priest said Wednesday.
“Hope has enabled me to live the Christian life and also to strive for and achieve my personal goals and aspirations, even as I have had to deal with historical traumas, and difficult challenges and obstacles, and untruths, that have been part of my journey as a native person of these lands,” Father Henry Sands, the eighth executive director of the the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, said in a Dec. 9 homily duri