CNS Vatican Report: “Clear and coordinated procedures”

Monday, May 16, 2011

Matthew Harrison

The Vatican released a document today calling on bishops’ conferences around the world to implement “clear and coordinated procedures” for dealing with clergy sex abuse. Catholic News Service’s Rome correspondent Carol Glatz reports the bishops have one year to adopt the measures. To download Flash Player please click here

Cardinal Levada to NY Times: Reconsider ‘attack mode’ against Pope Benedict

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Matthew Harrison

The official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Catholic San Francisco, has published a letter by Cardinal William J. Levada responding to New York Times’ articles on clergy sexual abuse and Pope Benedict XVI. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith defends the Holy Father and chastises the paper […]

Cardinal Levada: Why the Catholic faith is worth passing on

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

Although Cardinal William Joseph Levada’s March 8th address in Ottawa was titled “Why is the Catholic faith worth passing on?”, the focus of his question was, more pointedly, “Why is the Catholic faith worth passing on on university campuses?” Answered by no less than the prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, the short version was […]

March 13, 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Salt + Light Media

[singlepic id=55 w=145 h=206 float=right] Cardinal Levada is the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and he was in Canada this past week. One of the talks he gave was on whether the Catholic Faith should be passed on. Today on S+L Radio we listen to excerpts from that talk and […]

“Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism” — Cardinal Levada’s official text

Friday, March 12, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

On Monday, the S+L blog published an unofficial transcript of Cardinal William Levada’s address on the Vatican’s outreach to Anglicans. His talk attracted a great deal of attention due to the rarity of a visit to Canada by this high-ranking Curial Cardinal. However, the speech was particularly significant given that the office he charges, the […]

Cardinal Levada’s Homily from Mass in Ottawa

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Salt + Light Media

As we reported on Perspectives and throughout the blog, Cardinal William Levada, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was visiting Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario earlier this week. His celebration of Mass at Ottawa’s Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica will be broadcast on Salt + Light tonight, March 11th, at 8:30pm ET/9:30pm […]

Cardinal Levada on the Pope’s Anglican initiatives – Complete transcript

Monday, March 8, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

Posted below is a transcript of Cardinal William Joseph Levada’s address on Anglicanorum coetibus, delivered March 6th in Kingston, Ontario. The American Cardinal, who serves in the Vatican as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was introduced by the chaplain of the Queen’s University Newman Centre, Fr. Raymond de Souza. Note […]

Cardinal Levada in Kingston: Visible union “does not mean absorption into a monolith”

Monday, March 8, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

The following is an excerpt of Saturday’s address by Cardinal William Joseph Levada in Kingston, Ontario, entitled, “Five Hundred Years After St. John Fisher: Benedict’s Ecumenical Initiatives to Anglicans”. Visible union with the Catholic Church does not mean absorption into a monolith, with the absorbed body being lost to the greater whole, the way a […]

The Catholic Faith: Why is it Worth Passing On?

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mary Rose Bacani Valenti

If you have this question, then the Ottawa event on Monday, March 8th, may be just the thing for you. Cardinal William Joseph Levada will be speaking at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica on Sussex Drive in Ottawa. True to his role as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his talk is […]