Installation Mass of Miami, Florida Archbishop will Air on CatholicTV

On June 1st, CatholicTV will air the Installation Mass of Archbishop-elect Thomas Wenski as the new Archbishop of Miami.

Archbishop-elect Wenski speaks fluent Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English and is well-known for his pastoral work with immigrants. The Installation Mass will take place at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Miami and will air at CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV at 8PM (Eastern).

Archbishop-elect Wenski earned a B.A. Degree in Philosophy (1972), and Masters of Divinity (1975), from the Boynton Beach Seminary and in 1993 a MA from the School of Sociology of Fordham University in New York. He has also taken summer courses at the Catholic University of Lublin (Poland).

Archbishop-elect Wenski celebrated the weekly Mass in English for shut-ins at the Miami’s local ABC affiliate from 1992-1997.

Prior to his assignment in 2004 as Bishop of Orlando, he served as an Auxiliary Bishop in Miami from 1997-2003. His duties in the Archdiocese of Miami included serving on numerous boards including Catholic Hospice, Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities Legal Services, and St. Thomas University, and later as Coadjutor Bishop and Ordinary of Orlando, he also served as chair of CLINIC (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.) (1998-2001), chair of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops’ Committee on Migration (2001-2004); and chair of the conference’s Committee on International Policy (2004-2008) and currently he continues as a consultant to the Committee on Migration, and a member of the Conference’s Secretariat for the Church in Latin America , the committee for International Justice and Peace, and CLINIC (Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.)

More information about Archbishop-elect Thomas Wenski can be found at http://www.orlandodiocese.org/who_we_are/bishop_wenski/wenski_bio.php

Installation Mass of Archbishop-designate George Lucas to air on CatholicTV

On July 22nd, CatholicTV will air a live broadcast of the Installation Mass of Archbishop-designate George Lucas as the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Omaha. The television broadcast will take place from St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha and will be viewable at CatholicTV.com and also on CatholicTV where available. The Mass will air live at 3PM (Eastern) and will rebroadcast at 8PM.

The Most Reverend George J. Lucas is the fifth archbishop and tenth bishop to lead the Archdiocese of Omaha. He comes to Omaha after serving nearly 10 years in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, where he was ordained a bishop on December 14, 1999. He was named Archbishop of Omaha on June 3, 2009 by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

The Archdiocese of Omaha is home to 148 parishes and missions and 76 primary and secondary schools. Archbishop-Designate Lucas will lead more than 221,000 Nebraska Catholics. Archbishop Curtiss has been appointed apostolic administrator and will act in that capacity until the installation.

Archbishop-Designate Lucas was born June 12, 1949 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He took advanced studies at Saint Louis University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and Master of Arts degree in history. In the years leading to his ordination as a bishop in Springfield, he served on the faculty of St. Louis Preparatory Seminary-North and St. Louis Preparatory Seminary. He was also the chancellor and vicar general of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. He was named Honorary Prelate of His Holiness in 1994.

Bishop Lucas holds the following appointments of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, Subcommittee on the Catechism and Task Force for the 2010 Special Assembly.

For the latest information on the upcoming installation visit http://www.archomaha.org/.

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LIVE at 2pm on JULY 11th the EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF ARCHBISHOP-DESIGNATE AUGUSTINE DINOIA, O.P.

On America's Catholic Television Network - Live on Saturday July 11th at 2pm from America's Cathedral, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC CatholicTV will air the Episcopal Ordination of Archbishop Designate Augustine DiNoia, OP. His Eminence, William Cardinal Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith presides over the Episcopal Ordination of Archbishop-Designate Augustine DiNoia, OP the newly named Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

"Catholic Destinations" Highlights Basilicas and Shrines of City of St. Louis Ahead of Archbishop Installation Mass

In honor of Archbishop-elect Carlson’s upcoming installation as Archbishop, CatholicTV is highlighting several religious sites in St. Louis on the CatholicTV travel show “Catholic Destinations” starting Monday, June 8th. The installation of the Archbishop will take place on June 10th in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis located in the Central West End of St. Louis.

CatholicTV will broadcast episodes of host Kevin Nelson’s visits of the following sites:

*Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis

*Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France Old Cathedral

*Shrine of St. Joseph

*National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows (15 minutes from downtown St. Louis)- This is the nation’s largest outdoor shrine.

These episodes of “Catholic Destinations” will be broadcast at these special times (Eastern):

Thursday-6:30AM-7:30AM; Friday-9PM-10PM, 5AM-5:30AM & 5:30PM-6PM; Saturday 10:30AM-11:30AM; Sunday-2AM-3AM & 2:30PM-3PM; Monday-2PM-3PM & 4:30AM-5AM; Tuesday, 10PM-11PM & 2:30PM-3PM; Wednesday-4PM-5PM & 8:30PM-9PM.

In addition to the “Catholic Destinations” focus on St. Louis, CatholicTV will also air the installation Mass of Archbishop-elect Robert Carlson on Wednesday, June 10th at 3PM (Eastern) and again at 8PM.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis

The beautiful Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis welcomes visitors to view the largest collection of mosaic art in the world. Pope Paul VI called the structure "the outstanding cathedral of the Americas." Designated a basilica in 1997, the cathedral was built in the city's Central West End neighborhood between 1907 and 1909. Its glittering green dome is a prominent feature of the St. Louis skyline and its vast and detailed interior mosaics cover 83,000 square feet and took nearly 80 years to complete. The mosaics of the main church and the vestibule were installed by a father and son who used more than 41 million pieces of tile in over 7,000 colors to create their art. On the lower level of the cathedral, the Mosaic Museum traces the construction of the facility and the installation of the tiles to create the art.

Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France Old Cathedral

When St. Louis was founded by French fur traders in 1764, one of the first buildings constructed in the infant town was a church. Built on the site of that first church in 1834, the Old Cathedral, known officially as the Basilica of St. Louis, King of France, sits near the base of the Gateway Arch on land that is now part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Inside the Old Cathedral Museum, visitors can see pieces of St. Louis' early history including the original church bell, and religious art from the late 1700s. From 1826 to 1843, the St. Louis diocese, headquartered at the Old Cathedral, covered nearly half of America, from Louisiana north to Michigan, from Kentucky west to Oregon and from the state of Washington along the Canadian border to the Great Lakes. Pope John XXIII decreed the church a basilica in 1961.

Shrine of St. Joseph

Located at the corner of 11th and Biddle on the near north side of downtown St. Louis, St. Joseph's church opened in 1846. The church was noted as the site of a miracle that saved the life of a dying man who was healed after kissing a relic of St. Peter Claver. The miracle was authenticated as one of two miracles needed to canonize St. Peter Claver, who is known for his work among the African people of the Americas. The central altar, called the Altar of Answered Prayers, was installed in 1867, after the parishioners prayed to St. Joseph and asked him to intercede and save them from a deadly cholera epidemic that swept the city. The Italian Renaissance-style altar was designed to replicate the Altar of St. Ignatius at the Jesuit Gesu Church in Rome.

National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows

America's largest outdoor shrine, the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, is located 15 minutes from downtown St. Louis in Belleville, Illinois. Founded in 1958, the Shrine is open to people of all faiths. Its amphitheater seats 2,400 people for special Liturgies and other events that occur throughout the year. The Resurrection Garden, the Way of the Cross and the Annunciation Garden are popular stops during visits to the Shrine. The Lourdes Grotto is a replica of the famous Grotto in Lourdes, France. Daily Masses are held in the Church of Our Lady of the Snows. During the year, the shrine hosts a variety of special events including Hispanic and African cultural celebrations, the Our Lady of the Snows Novena and the popular Way of Lights drive through a holiday display that tells the story of the first Christmas with hundreds of thousands of tiny, white lights.

Installation Of New St. Louis Archbishop To Be Broadcast On CatholicTV

On Wednesday, June 10th, CatholicTV will broadcast the installation Mass of Archbishop-elect Robert Carlson from the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. The Mass will air live at 3PM (EST) and will be rebroadcast at 8PM. The installation Mass will also be on at CatholicTV.com.

Archbishop-elect Carlson will be installed by Justin Cardinal Rigali, the Archbishop of Philadelphia and former Archbishop of St. Louis himself. Many American cardinals and bishops will be present for the Mass.

On November 19, 1983, just thirteen years after his ordination to the priesthood, Carlson was named Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, choosing for his episcopal motto: ANTE CRUCEM NIHIL DEFENSIONIS, (“Before the Cross There is No Defense”)

Interestingly, Archbishop-elect Carlson also served at the University of St. Thomas, where he was a chaplain to the hockey team. As Archbishop, Carlson will be the spiritual leader of 500,000 Catholics in eastern Missouri.

Carlson survived stage-four bladder cancer in the 1990s, having once been told by his doctor to arrange his will in order to prepare for an imminent death. He has undergone a total of seven cancer-related procedures, and partly credited a trip to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal for his recovery.