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Cardinal O'Connor
John Joseph O'Connor (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) was an American Catholic Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was made a cardinal in 1985. O'Connor previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain (1952 to 1979), including four years as chief of chaplains, as an auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate of the United States (1979 to 1983), and as Bishop of Scranton from 1983 to 1984. Biography Early life John O'Connor was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1920, the fourth of five children of Thomas J. O'Connor, and Dorothy Magdalene (née Gomple) O'Connor. Thomas was a painter and Dorothy was the daughter of Gustave Gumpel, a kosher butcher and Jewish rabbi. In 2014, it was discovered that Dorothy was baptized a Catholic at age 19 and that the couple wed one year later. O'Connor attended public schools in Philadelphia until his junior year of high school, when he enrolled in West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys. Having decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Eminence
His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or HE) is a style (manner of address), style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of address in reference to a cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Catholic Church, reflecting his status as a Prince of the Church. A longer, and more formal, title is "His [or Your when addressing the cardinal directly] Most Reverend Eminence". Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches who are also cardinals may be addressed as "His Eminence" or by the style particular to Catholic patriarchs, His Beatitude. When the Grand master (order), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst (i.e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire) in 1607, became (in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C., and the nation's first University charter#Federal, federally chartered university. The university has eleven Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Postgraduate education, graduate schools. Its main campus, located in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown historic neighborhood, is on a hill above the Potomac River and identifiable by Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States#Universities_classified_as_"R1:_Doctoral_Universities_–_Very_high_research_activity", "R1: Doctoral Universities – V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosher
(also or , ) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher ( in English, ), from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the term that in Sephardi or Modern Hebrew is pronounced ''kashér'' (), meaning "fit" (in this context: "fit for consumption"). Food that may not be consumed, however, is deemed treif ( in English, ), also spelled treyf (). In case of objects the opposite of kosher is pasúl ( in English, Yiddish: פָּסוּל). Although the details of the laws of are numerous and complex, they rest on a few basic principles: * Only certain types of mammals, birds, and fish, meeting specific criteria are kosher; the consumption of the flesh of any animals that do not meet these criteria, such as pork, frogs, and shellfish, is forbidden, except for locusts, which are the only kosher invertebrate. * The most basic eating rule in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese For The Military Services, USA
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A. (AMS), officially the Military Ordinariate of United States of America, is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in the United States, Catholic Church for people serving in the United States Armed Forces and their military dependent, dependents. The AMS provides services to Catholics serving in military installations in the United States and overseas, to Catholic staff and patients at Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Heath Administration facilities, and to Catholics at other federal services located overseas. The AMS does not have a cathedral, nor does it have jurisdiction over any territory; its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. The AMS is considered a military ordinariate, headed by an archbishop. , the archbishop is Timothy P. Broglio. Description The AMS was originally established as a military ordinariate, military vicariate, with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archbishop of New York se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy Chaplain Corps
The United States Navy Chaplain Corps is the body of military chaplains of the United States Navy who are Officer (armed forces), commissioned naval officers. Their principal purpose is "to promote the spiritual, religious, moral, and personal well-being of the members of the United States Department of the Navy, Department of the Navy", which includes the Navy and the United States Marine Corps. Additionally, the Chaplain Corps provides chaplains to the United States Coast Guard. The Chaplain Corps consists of clergy endorsed from ecclesiastical bodies providing assistance for all Navy, Marine Corps, United States Merchant Marine, Merchant Marine, and Coast Guard personnel and their families. Navy chaplains come from a variety of religious backgrounds; chaplains are Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist. Chaplains have Military chaplain#Non-combatant status, non-combatant status and do not participate directly in hostilities. In the U.S. they are prohi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In The United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion, communion with the pope, who as of 2025 is Chicago, Illinois-born Pope Leo XIV, Leo XIV. With 23 percent of the United States' population , the Catholic Church is the country's second-largest religious grouping after Protestantism in the United States, Protestantism, and the country's largest single church if Protestantism is divided into separate Christian denomination, denominations. In a 2020 Gallup, Inc., Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. The United States has the fourth-largest Catholic Church by country, Catholic population in the world, after Catholic Church in Brazil, Brazil, Catholic Church in Mexico, Mexico, and the Catholic Church in the Philippines, Philippines. History Catholicism has had a significant cultural, social, and political impact on the United States. Early colonial period One of the Thirteen Colonies of British America, the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francis McCarthy
James Francis McCarthy (born July 9, 1942) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in New York City from 1999 to 2002. McCarthy was forced to resign his post in 2002 after he admitted having sexual affairs with adult women. Biography Early life Born on July 9, 1942, in Mount Kisco, New York, James McCarthy attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York. McCarthy then attended Cathedral College in Queens, New York, and St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, New York. Priesthood McCarthy was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Terence Cooke at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on June 1, 1968, for the Archdiocese of New York. After his 1968 ordination, the archdiocese assigned McCarthy as an assistant pastor at St. Denis Parish in Hopewell Junction, New York. He left St. Denis in 1976 to serve as pastor at St. Benedict's Parish in the Bronx. In 1984, Cardinal John O'Connor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anthony Brucato
Robert Anthony Brucato (August 14, 1931 – November 7, 2018) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1997 to 2006. Biography Early life Robert Brucato was born in the Bronx in New York City on August 14, 1931 to Anthony and Yolanda (nee Vento) Brucato. He attended P.S. 97, a public primary school, and Cardinal Hayes High School, both in the Bronx. Deciding to become a priest, Brucato entered Cathedral College in Queens, New York City. He completed his preparation for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. Priesthood Brucato was ordained a priest on June 1, 1957, for the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal Francis Spellman. During his years with the archdiocese, Brucato served as parochial vicar at the following New York parishes: * St. Gabriel in the Bronx * St. Ann in Ossining * St. Anthony in West Harrison * St. Charles Borromeo in Dover Plains In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Frederick O'Brien
Edwin Frederick O'Brien (born April 8, 1939) is an American Catholic who headed the Order of the Holy Sepulchre from 2011 to 2019. He previously served as Archbishop of Baltimore from 2007 to 2011 and as Archbishop of the Military Services, USA, from 1997 to 2007. He was an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York from 1996 to 1997. O'Brien was made a cardinal in 2012. Early life and education Edwin O'Brien was born on April 8, 1939, in the Bronx, New York, to Edwin Frederick Sr. and Mary Winifred O'Brien. One of three children, he had two brothers, Ken and Tom O'Brien, now deceased. O'Brien graduated from Our Lady of Solace Parish School in the Bronx in 1953 and attended St. Mary's High School in Katonah, New York from 1953 to 1957. O'Brien entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York in 1959, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts (1961), Master of Divinity (1964), and Master of Arts (1965) degrees. Priesthood O'Brien was ordained to the priesthood at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Michael Moynihan
James Michael Moynihan (July 6, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the ninth Bishop of Syracuse. Biography James Moynihan was born in Rochester, New York, to Michael Joseph and Carolyn Elizabeth (née Horigan) Moynihan; he had one sister, Carol Anne. He graduated Nazareth Hall School for Boys in 1946, and then attended St. Andrew's Seminary High School until 1950, anSt. Andrew and St. Bernard Seminary College graduating in 1954 with his Bachelor of Arts degree. Moynihan then traveled to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical North American College, from where he obtained his licentiate in theology, and the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a doctorate in canon law ''summa cum laude.'' He was ordained to the priesthood, for the Diocese of Rochester, by Archbishop Martin O'Connor on December 15, 1957, at the chapel of the North American College. Upon his return to the United States, Moynihan became associate pastor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Sheridan
Patrick Joseph Thomas Sheridan K.H.S., K.M., (March 10, 1922 – December 2, 2011) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1990 until his retirement in 2001. Biography Early life Sheridan was born on March 10, 1922, in Manhattan. Deciding to become a priest, he attended Cathedral Preparatory School and Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, the two minor seminaries in Queens. Sheridan concluded his studies for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. Priesthood Sheridan was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New York on March 1, 1947, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan by Cardinal Francis Spellman. Auxiliary Bishop of New York Pope John Paul II named Sheridan as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and titular bishop of Cursola on October 30, 1990. He was consecrated bishop on December 30, 1990 at St. Patrick's Cathedral by Cardina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Jolson
Alfred James Jolson, S.J., (June 18, 1928 – March 21, 1994), was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Reykjavík from 1988 until his death in 1994. After several years of teaching in various Jesuit educational institutions in the United States (including Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia), Italy, and Iraq, Jolson was appointed to the Diocese of Reykjavík by Pope John Paul II in 1987. Jolson died suddenly in 1994.Cf. The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin or , both meaning 'compare') is generally used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed. However some sources offer differing or even contr ...br>''The New York Times'', Obituaries (March 25, 1994), ''Alfred J. Jolson; Bishop of Reykjavik, 65''/ref> See also * Bishop of Reykjavík * Diocese of Reykjavík * Christ the King Cathedral, Reykjavík (Iceland) * Roman Catholicism in Iceland * Christianity in Iceland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
