- Feb 5, 2002
- 167,858
- 57,013
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Catholic
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Others
YEAR IN REVIEW
Four years ago, when Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster died at age 95, her fellow nuns didn’t embalm her body before having it buried in a plain wooden coffin. Yet when her body was exhumed this past May, it looked remarkably well-preserved. The surprising discovery has drawn thousands of pilgrims to the sisters’ Benedictine abbey in Gower, Missouri, to see and pray over the remains of the indomitable Black woman who, at age 70, founded a religious order dedicated to silence, poverty, wearing a religious habit and the traditional Latin Mass.
It also provided an upbeat counterweight to the year’s distressing developments, including the shocking murders of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in February and a Nebraska priest in December; a seventh-straight pro-life loss in a state abortion ballot question since the overturning of Roe v. Wade(this time in Ohio), and continued acts of violence and vandalism against U.S. Catholic churches, including the theft in May of a $2-million bejeweled tabernacle in Brooklyn and the desecration of the Hosts inside. At the same time, continued turmoil at the U.S. border — and the failure of the U.S. Congress and the Biden administration to address it — is placing strain on Catholic Charities and other social-service agencies around the country.
Meanwhile, Catholics have watched with alarm the unfolding revelations on Capitol Hill about an FBI domestic terrorism probe that inexplicably targeted traditional Catholics in the Richmond, Virginia, area. And hopes dimmed that disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick will be brought to justice after he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial on criminal sexual-abuse charges in Massachusetts.
Continued below.
www.ncregister.com
Four years ago, when Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster died at age 95, her fellow nuns didn’t embalm her body before having it buried in a plain wooden coffin. Yet when her body was exhumed this past May, it looked remarkably well-preserved. The surprising discovery has drawn thousands of pilgrims to the sisters’ Benedictine abbey in Gower, Missouri, to see and pray over the remains of the indomitable Black woman who, at age 70, founded a religious order dedicated to silence, poverty, wearing a religious habit and the traditional Latin Mass.
It also provided an upbeat counterweight to the year’s distressing developments, including the shocking murders of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell in February and a Nebraska priest in December; a seventh-straight pro-life loss in a state abortion ballot question since the overturning of Roe v. Wade(this time in Ohio), and continued acts of violence and vandalism against U.S. Catholic churches, including the theft in May of a $2-million bejeweled tabernacle in Brooklyn and the desecration of the Hosts inside. At the same time, continued turmoil at the U.S. border — and the failure of the U.S. Congress and the Biden administration to address it — is placing strain on Catholic Charities and other social-service agencies around the country.
Meanwhile, Catholics have watched with alarm the unfolding revelations on Capitol Hill about an FBI domestic terrorism probe that inexplicably targeted traditional Catholics in the Richmond, Virginia, area. And hopes dimmed that disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick will be brought to justice after he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial on criminal sexual-abuse charges in Massachusetts.
Continued below.
In the US, 2023 Was a Year Marked by a Startling Discovery and the Shocking Murder of a Beloved Bishop
YEAR IN REVIEW
