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Peter Vaghi is a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Washington, an author, and a former lawyer associated with several noted American jurists. He is pastor of the Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Maryland and was previously pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C.
Vaghi was born in Washington, D.C., in 1948. After attending the College of the Holy Cross, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the University of Salzburg in Austria. After returning to America, he attended the University of Virginia Law School and worked as an attorney and staffer to Senator Pete Domenici in Washington, D.C. Feeling a call to the priesthood, Vaghi was assigned as a seminarian to the Pontifical North American College, located in Rome, and attended the Gregorian University, also in Rome, in preparation for his ordination to the priesthood.
He was ordained in 1985, and designated a "Prelate of Honor" (entitling him to be addressed and referred to as "monsignor") by Pope John Paul II in 1995.
Vaghi has drawn attention because of his association with a number of highly influential conservative American jurists. [1] He participated in the baptism and conversion to Catholicism of both Robert Bork, the unsuccessful conservative Supreme Court nominee, and columnist Robert Novak. He is also said to have a close relationship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, his college classmate, with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, whose family belongs to his parish.
Vaghi is also active in the John Carroll Society, "an old-time Catholic service organization favored by Washington's large Catholic legal and political establishment," as whose chaplain he served as of 1987. [1]
Henry Edward Manning was an English prelate of the Catholic church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892. He was ordained in the Church of England as a young man, but converted to Catholicism in the aftermath of the Gorham judgement.
With 23 percent of the United States' population as of 2018, the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations. In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they were Catholic. The United States has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Christendom College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, located in the Shenandoah Valley. It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College and has been characterized as a conservative Catholic liberal arts college. The school does not accept federal funding.
Richard Edmund Pates is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pates served as bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines in Iowa from 2008 to 2019 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2000 to 2008.
Monsignor John Arthur Trese was an American Catholic priest serving the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1951 to 2000.
Frank Joseph Dewane is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Venice in Florida since 2007.
Lawrence Eugene Brandt is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg in Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2015.
Sertum laetitiae is an encyclical from Pope Pius XII to the Catholic Church of the United States of America in memory of the 150th anniversary of the installation of the first American bishop.
George William Coleman is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Coleman served as bishop of the Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts from 2003 to 2014.
Kevin William Vann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was named bishop of the Diocese of Orange in Southern California by Pope Benedict XVI, succeeding the retiring bishop, Tod Brown, on September 21, 2012. Vann previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas from 2005 to 2012.
John Carroll was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States. He served as the ordinary of the first diocese and later Archdiocese of Baltimore, in Maryland, which at first encompassed all of the United States and later after division as the eastern half of the new nation.
William O'Hara was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first bishop of the Diocese of Scranton in Pennsylvania, serving from 1868 until his death in 1899. He founded St. Thomas College in 1888.
Allen James Babcock was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the seventh Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1954 to 1969.
St. Catherine of Siena is a Roman Catholic parish in Trumbull, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
Francis Jeremiah Connell, C.Ss.R., was a Redemptorist priest, professor, author, and noted Catholic American theologian. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Washington, D.C.
Robert Philip Reed is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. As of 2016, he is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston and the president of the television network CatholicTV.
William Shawn McKnight is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Jefferson City in Missouri since 2017.
Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. It was established by the Archdiocese of Washington in 1960, and is dedicated to John the Baptist.
Austin Anthony Vetter is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Helena in Montana since 2019.
Edmund James Whalen is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York since 2019.
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