SEATTLE – The Catholic bishops of Washington state applauded the October 11 decision by the state Supreme Court striking down the death penalty in Washington. The bishops have long been on record as opposing capital punishment.
Editor’s note: This is the text of the homily Archbishop J. Peter Sartain preached at the Prayer of Repentance and Healing service held October 4, 2018, at St. James Cathedral.
En cierto momento de mi carrera en la escuela de gramática, estudié las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo: las Pirámides de Egipto, los Jardines Colgantes de Babilonia, el Templo de Diana en Éfeso, la Estatua de Júpiter en Atenas, el Mausoleo de Halicarnaso, el Coloso de Rodas y el Faro de Alejandría en Egipto.
At some point in my grammar school career, I studied the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Statue of Jupiter at Athens, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus at Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria in Egypt.
To promote healing in the wake of the abuse crisis in the church, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, along with auxiliary bishops Eusebio Elizondo and Daniel Mueggenborg, will lead a public prayer service at St. James Cathedral October 4 at 7 p.m. “It will be an opportunity for us bishops to express our sorrow and contrition for the scourge of sexual abuse in the Church,” the archbishop said, “and to pray for the healing of all those who have been victims, as well as the Church herself.”
SEATTLE – Out of “deep concern” for the people of the Archdiocese of Seattle in light of recent revelations of clergy sexual abuse, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain sent a letter to all parishes in the archdiocese to be read from the pulpit at Masses September 8–9.
SEATTLE – In light of allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and the release this week of a grand jury report implicating hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania, Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain expressed “shame and remorse” for “the tragedy of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.”
Lastima, divide y crea un ambiente de hostilidad y de libertina indiferencia