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In “The Last Supper,” Paul Elie explores how controversies over artists like Sinéad O’Connor and Keith Haring paved the way ...
NEW YORK — A new podcast explores the complicated relationship between former Cardinal John O’Connor and the gay community at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. As archbishop of New ...
“His eminence John Cardinal O’Connor has completed ... visits to Catholic hospitals where he ministered to AIDS patients. O’Connor also defied then-Mayor Ed Koch’s executive order ...
(UNDATED) John O’Connor, a cardinal archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church who died Wednesday (May 3), was not yet an admiral in the United States Navy when I met him. Fusing these titles ...
Father Charles Connor relates the story in John Cardinal O’Connor and the Culture of Life. Two days later, The New York Times reacted with characteristic negativity. O’Connor was informed that ...
and just a year later he was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II. Cardinal O’Connor became very active in the pro-life movement by preaching and advocating alongside other leaders. But despite ...
Was Cardinal John O’Connor, the late archbishop of New York, technically Jewish? Few rabbis would say the prelate, whose mother, Dorothy Gumble O’Connor converted to Catholicism long before ...
The family of Cardinal John O'Connor has recently made a stunning discovery -- the New York archbishop's mother was born Jewish, and her family is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Connecticut.
Cardinal John O’Connor arrived at the Vatican on Wednesday to say “thanks and goodbye” to Pope John Paul II and other officials, an aide said. The New York archbishop turned 80 last month ...
On Oct. 28, 1999, Cardinal John O'Connor of New York wrote a letter to the U.S. apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, after the cardinal learned that McCarrick was under consideration to ...
In 1975, Cardinal John O’Connor, the late former archbishop of New York, visited the Dachau concentration camp. His life-changing experience there eventually led him to found the Sisters of Life ...