
Bishop Conley Pays Tribute to Archbishop Chaput — ‘A Prophet of Our Time’
'In all my years knowing him, Archbishop Chaput witnessed to a joyful heart, even in the difficult times...'
'In all my years knowing him, Archbishop Chaput witnessed to a joyful heart, even in the difficult times...'
The Catholic commentator’s unflinching determination to tell the truth is central to his new book, just as it was throughout his long and dynamic collaboration with Archbishop Charles Chaput.
In a wide-ranging interview, the archbishop emeritus reacts to some of the latest news revolving around the ongoing synod reminding Catholics: ‘Church gatherings should be about proclaiming the Gospel and not about advancing a particular ideology or sociological analysis.’
‘That’s a form of lying. Mr. Biden is not in communion with the Catholic faith. And any priest who now provides Communion to the president participates in his hypocrisy.’
Joe Biden will become the second baptized Catholic to be sworn in as U.S. president.
The event is an annual gathering of Catholic leaders held in Washington, D.C., begun in 2004 to promote Pope John Paul II’s call for the New Evangelization.
COMMENTARY: Much of the recent history of the Catholic Church in the United States can be told in the lives of these two men, who were both ordained Aug. 29, 1970.
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The Philadelphia archbishop critiqued proposals to admit to sacramental Communion those divorced-and-civilly-remarried persons who carry on marital relations, despite the validity of the prior union, instead of living chastely as brother and sister.
While Western media may have overlooked it, within the synod halls, the bishops were earnestly discussing how to deal with a problem that is a scourge to families and the Church.
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