First Things RSS Feed - Timothy M. Dolan https://www.firstthings.com/author/timothy-m-dolan en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:57 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/timothy-m-dolan 60 Catholic Revival in the Bronx https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2023/03/catholic-revival-in-the-bronx https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2023/03/catholic-revival-in-the-bronx Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:05:00 -0400 Watch Cardinal Dolan and Fr. Vincent Druding discuss the “Jesus in Zion” Revival at Holy Cross Church in the Bronx, inspired by the Asbury Revival. It kicked off on Ash Wednesday evening with 24/7 adoration and praise and worship, and has been going on ever since. 

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]]> The Bishops in Council https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/04/the-bishops-in-council https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/04/the-bishops-in-council Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0400 Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United States, meeting the American bishops in Chicago. In his address to them, the former university professor used a style that was both innovative and pedagogically effective: he quoted from an array of documents and pastoral letters that the American bishops had issued on spiritual, moral, and pastoral matters; he affirmed their teaching and challenged them to continue and strengthen it; and, in the process, he shrewdly gave a papal benediction to the genius of the American hierarchy for working collegially, collaboratively, and in concert. It was as if the Successor of St. Peter was nodding in agreement with the observation of James Hennessy, S.J., that “ . . . the bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States have perhaps the proudest conciliar tradition in the Church universal.”

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