From the stirrings of a vocation in grammar school in Los Angeles, to decades-long service at the Vatican and in the U.S., the retired archbishop of Philadelphia reflected on his eventful ministry.
05/03/2021 at 1:46 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The Pillar, April 23, 2021
The Vatican has received multiple allegations of administrative misconduct against Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, and is expected to authorize an investigation under the terms of Vos estis lux mundi, The Pillar has learned.
Complaints filed against the bishop allege that Stika impeded or restricted investigations into accusations of serial sexual misconduct by a seminarian who was living in his home, according to multiple sources in both the United States and Rome.
But Stika told The Pillar Thursday that he has acted properly, and is satisfied with the diocese’s handling of a series of misconduct reports against the seminarian.
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Cardinal Sarah’s signature absent from Vatican letter backing ban of Communion on tongue during COVID 12/11/2020 at 9:06 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The Congregation for Divine Worship seems to have confirmed Bishop Richard Stika’s decision to suspend communion on the tongue – but the Congregation’s head, or prefect, did not lend his signature to the controversial document.
By Peter Baklinski, LifeSite News, December 11, 2020
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The signature of the Vatican’s liturgy chief is missing from a controversial letter signed by the secretary of the Vatican body that supervises worship and sacraments in the Church. The letter supports the decision of a U.S. bishop to ban reception of Holy Communion on the tongue in his diocese on account of the coronavirus outbreak.