‘Incomprehensible’ By Gina Christian OSV News Hours before Holy Week began, a U.S. major military medical center ended a long-standing contract to provide Catholic pastoral care to veterans and service members, violating their religious freedom, according to Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services. On March 31, Walter Reed National […]
Two U.S. war heroes get sainthood nod from U.S. bishops
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops gave their go-ahead to two dioceses to continue their efforts to make their case for a priest and a brother to be considered for sainthood. The men are Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, an Army chaplain who died in […]
Hawaii woman receives military archdiocese special recognition
The Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio has awarded Tracey Harger, the Catholic pastoral life coordinator for U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii, the Medal of the Archdiocese for the Military Services for her outstanding volunteer work in the archdiocese. The award was presented at a Mass June 11 at the Soldier’s Chapel at Schofield […]
Photo: Mass at Foster Point
Bishop Larry Silva presided at an outdoor Mass at Foster Point on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Oct. 21. The event is an annual tradition, but the bishop received a special invite to preside at it this year from Air Force chaplain Father Peter Dumag, who is the former vocations director for the Diocese of […]
