Pleuntje via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Boston, Mass., Mar 23, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee has stripped one of his priests of the faculty to hear confessions following the clergyman s public support for civil laws mandating that priests break the seal of confession for sins of sexual abuse."I have informed Father James Connell that effective immediately he is to cease all such erroneous communications that distort the teachings of the Church about the confessional seal," Listeicki wrote in a March 22 statement. "I have also immediately removed the canonical faculties of Father Connell to validly celebrate the sacrament of confession and to offer absolution, here in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and thereby also in the Catholic Church around the world."Connell, a retired priest in the archdiocese and former vice chancellor, made comments March 13 in delawareonline.com advocating for a Delaware state bill that mandat
Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee has stripped one of his priests of the faculty to hear confessions following the clergyman’s public support for civil.
Sandra Peterson has been living in a camper in her daughter's backyard in Fort Resolution, N.W.T. since mid-August when she left what she described as an abusive relationship in British Columbia.
"My dear Marie" or "My darling" begin many of the letters Robert E. Peterson Sr. wrote during the 1940s to Marie, the woman he met, fell in love with and then quickly married before going off to serve in World War II. They drive "Attlebridge Letters Home," a recently published book written by the couple s son, Art Peterson of Spring Grove.