Please join us in congratulating all the Redemptorists of our province who are celebrating significant anniversaries this year. You’ll find them listed below. Professed as Redemptorists Ordained to the Priesthood 75 years 70 years Father James McGonagle Father James McGonagle 70 years 65 years Father Lawrence Murphy Father Lawrence Murphy 65 years 60 years Father Thomas Forrest Father Thomas Forrest Father Thomas Hickey Father Thomas Hickey 60 years 50 years Father Paul Bryan Father James Brennan Father John Gauci Archbishop Edward J. Gilbert Father George Kelly Father Joseph Krastel Father John Kennington Father Francis Nelson Brother Francis Roberts Father Louis Olive Father Francis Sullivan Father John Travers 40 years Brother DeSales Zimpfer Father Franklyn Cuffy Father Glanville Joseph 50 years Brother Christopher Colarossi 25 years Father Raymond Collins Father Callistus Auguiste Father Patrick Flynn Brother Stephen Lendvay Brother Thomas Rochacewicz Father Thomas Siconolfi Father James Wallace 40 years Father Richard Welch 25 years Father John McLoughlin
Rome, Italy, August 13, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News) —The annual meeting of Benedict XVI’s students from his time at the University of Regensburg will gather next week to discuss the theology of the cross, a member of the circle has said.
Washington D.C., August 11, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News) —Catholics in various parts of the United States have organized efforts to pray for peace in Iraq, especially for persecuted Christians. The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international justice and peace committee, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, has called for collective prayer for peace in Iraq on Aug. 17 using a prayer written by the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon.
Rome, Italy, August 8, 2014 (CNA) —Ursuline Sister Cristina Scuccia, the young Italian religious who won the last season of The Voice Italy , renewed her temporary vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience on July 29 at one of the congregation’s convents in Sicily.