2022 Advent Penitential Services

The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and to the anniversary of Our Lord’s birth on Christmas. Click for a schedule of all the Advent Penitentials that parishes have sent to the Archdiocese:

ADVENT PENITENTIAL LIST

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Trump tweets he’s ‘honoured’ by former nuncio’s letter warning of COVID-19 conspiracy

June 11, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was "honoured" by an open letter from a former Vatican official who claimed that…

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In rare interview, McCarrick maintains his innocence

September 4, 2019

Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington who was laicized last February following a Vatican trial on sexual…

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Top Church officials knew McCarrick’s ministry was restricted, says former secretary

May 28, 2019

Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they…

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Pope Francis denies knowing of allegations against McCarrick

May 28, 2019

Nearly a year later, Pope Francis denied claims made by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States who accused…

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Pope’s sixth year in office marked by ‘scourge of abuse and internal attacks’

March 12, 2019

Catholics cannot place blame for the sexual abuse crisis on "those who came before us" in an attempt "to present…

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Vatican begins investigation of Archbishop McCarrick

December 28, 2018

A man who says he was serially sexually abused by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick testified as part of a Vatican investigation…

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