Rocco got the first scoop on this story yesterday, and now the New York Times is running with it. Seems the Cardinal Archbishop of New York is in a personnel-shuffling mood: Cardinal Edward M. Egan has reassigned almost 10 percent of the active priests in the Archdiocese of New York without adequately consulting the personnel…

One of the most popular parlor games right now — being played in sacristies and vestibules and parking lots across this great land — is figuring out who will be the next Archbishop (and, presumably, Cardinal Archbishop) of New York. Pat Rice gets into the act at the St. Louis Beacon: As Cardinal Edward Egan…

This is an interesting little news nugget: an attorney who wants to grill the pontiff about sex abuse in one American archdiocese: Pope Benedict XVI should be questioned soon about clergy sex abuse in the Catholic church because he is the most knowledgeable person on the topic and his advanced age makes future testimony unlikely,…

A bishop in a neighboring diocese, Rockville Center, has just issued a pastoral letter, and he’s cracking down on how and where the Body of Christ is distributed. From Newsday (Long Island, New York): For three decades, students at elite Chaminade High School in Mineola could receive Communion during a 15-minute “Communion Service” just before…

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