For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. “Our priests feel we’re doing the best we can,” said Bishop Kevin Sweeney, whose …
El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz, shown at the border five years ago, says his diocese faces the possibility of losing priests whose permanent residency cases now have little chance to be approved before their visas expire. “Our priests feel we’re doing the best we can,” said Bishop Kevin Sweeney, whose diocese covers 400,000 Catholics and 107 parishes in three …
There’s a strange saga unfolding in Texas. The friend also said Olson admitted he’d shut down a Catholic center because there were “just a bunch of women in there”—nuns, whom he called “aging lesbians.” Additionally, some 1,600 people signed a November 2019 petition to have the Vatican investigate Olson, claiming he was “vindictive.” According to the petition, he referred to …
ALBANY, N.Y. — An 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said Tuesday he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony. The current bishop of the upstate New York diocese said it did not consider Hubbard’s marriage to be valid. Albany Bishop Edward Scharfenberger …
