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| Abbreviation | B.H. [1] |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1980 [2] |
| Type | Association of the faithful in the Catholic Church |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts [3] |
| Website | brotherhoodofhope.org |
The Brotherhood of Hope (abbreviated B.H. [1] ) is an association of the faithful in the Catholic Church, composed primarily of religious brothers who serve in college campus ministry.
The association was founded in 1980 in Newark, New Jersey by Father Philip Merdinger, a Catholic priest from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and five lay men who came together to consecrate themselves to God through private vows. [2] [4]
This new community had been formed by an association of charismatic Catholic families in New Jersey known as the People of Hope and from the inspiration of an ecumenical group of consecrated men in Michigan called the Servants of the Word. [4]
Their first apostolate was in New Jersey, serving students at Rutgers University. In 1995 they were invited by Cardinal Bernard Law to establish their headquarters in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, with canonical approval in 1998. [4]
The Brotherhood of Hope serves Catholic campus ministries at Florida State University, University of Central Florida, Northeastern University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. [5] [6] [7] [8]
In December 2012, Father Robert W. Oliver, a member of the Brotherhood of Hope, was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Promoter of Justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. [9] [10] In September 2014, Oliver was promoted by Pope Francis to be the first secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. [3] [11]
Bernard Francis Law was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, known largely for covering up the serial rape of children by Catholic priests. He served as Archbishop of Boston, archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna, which was the American parish in Rome until 2017, when the American community was relocated to San Patrizio.
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Our Sunday Visitor is a Roman Catholic publishing company in Huntington, Indiana, which prints the American national weekly newspaper of that name, as well as numerous Catholic periodicals, religious books, pamphlets, catechetical materials, inserts for parish bulletins and offertory envelopes, and offers an "Online Giving" system and "Faith in Action" websites for parishes. Founded in 1912 by Father John F. Noll, the newspaper Our Sunday Visitor was the most popular Catholic newsweekly of the twentieth century.
This page documents Catholic Church sexual abuse cases by country.
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Frank Joseph Rodimer was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the sixth Bishop of Paterson from 1977 to 2004.
There have been many lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, and scandals over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in the United States of America.
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