Nicholas Cafardi

Backlash to trans activist’s St. Patrick’s funeral reveals deep fault lines

By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — February 23, 2024
(RNS) — Both Cecilia Gentili’s friends and family and Cardinal Timothy Dolan said they felt 'disrespect' from the other group.

False charges of ‘anti-Catholicism’ are anti-Catholic

By David Gibson — October 28, 2016
(RNS) Leaked emails aren't anti-Catholic and neither is Hillary Clinton. But spreading such charges goes against canon law, and is more about politics than the faith.

ANALYSIS: Philadelphia abuse reversal conveys a painful lesson

By David Gibson — December 27, 2013
(RNS) This week’s court decision that freed a senior cleric in Philadelphia who had been jailed for shielding an abusive priest was a symbolic setback for victims’ advocates but one with a substantial, and discouraging, message for their cause: None of the churchmen implicated in cover-ups during the worst decades of abuse will likely ever face charges.

Pope Francis names assisting bishop for troubled Newark, N.J., archdiocese

By Mark Mueller — September 24, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Embattled Archbishop John Myers rejected a claim that the appointment of a designated successor was a rebuke of his administration. "Absolutely not. It was my own request."
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