Skip to content
Blogue do Bispo
11
Ago
2021
Examples of Charity

FACE Summer Gala Last week it was my pleasure to gather with some 200 persons for the annual Summer Gala in Falmouth to support the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education …

Blogue do Bispo
4
Ago
2021
The Call to Be a Parish Priest

  Today is the feast day for the Patron Saint of Parish Priests, Jean-Baptiste-Marie (John) Vianney. At the age of 17, John Vianney felt the call to the priesthood. “If …

Blogue do Bispo
28
Jul
2021
Ask the Bishop

Catholic Appeal  The 80th Catholic Appeal, “Time to Gather, Time to Heal, Time to Love,” has closed with tremendous results. After an extraordinarily challenging time, more than 18,000 individual donors …

Blogue do Bispo
21
Jul
2021
Special Invitations

Legatus Presentation On Wednesday, July 14, I was invited to speak by the New Jersey chapter of Legatus, which is an international organization of Catholic laymen and laywomen from the …

Blogue do Bispo
14
Jul
2021
Summer Around the Diocese

Lessons from the Garden As a young man in Brazil, I lived on a farm, which is where my love of gardening began. My family often grew what we ate …

Blogue do Bispo
7
Jul
2021
The Global and Local Church

Revitalization on a Global Level In last week’s blog, I shared that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sets three-year cycle strategic plans. The 2021-24 USCCB Strategic Plan was …

Blogue do Bispo
30
Jun
2021
Created Anew and Eucharistic Revival

Revitalizing the Diocese In a post-pandemic world, among the challenges we face is to bring our Catholic faithful back to the Church. We need to reach the 80% of the …

Blogue do Bispo
23
Jun
2021
Clarification, Computers, and Catholic Appeal

Clarification Regarding USCCB General Assembly Since the close of the USCCB’s June General Assembly last week, there has been much discussion—and confusion—about the vote the bishops participated in regarding the …

Blogue do Bispo
16
Jun
2021
More Signs of Hope

2021 Catholic High School Graduations How happy I was this year to attend all of our Catholic High School graduations in person, along with the graduates’ families, friends, and loved …

Blogue do Bispo
9
Jun
2021
Hopeful Turns: Lifting the Dispensation and Celebrating an Ordination

Lifting of Mass Dispensation I am so grateful to God to see the average number of new cases of COVID-19 continue to decline due to all of you observing safety …