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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | News, United States |
As rioters targeted Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping district, they picked an unlikely target: A bookstore run by nuns.
The post Nuns praying for looters after attack on Catholic bookstore appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreParticipating shrines pray a mystery of the rosary at a designated half-hour in thanksgiving for the priesthood and to seek Mary’s protection for priests
The post Pope Francis blesses global rosary relay for priests appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreThe Vatican Museums reopened Monday revealing newly restored frescoes in the Raphael Rooms depicting scenes from early Church history to the public
The post Vatican Museums reopening unveils restored Raphael Rooms appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Free Access, News, United States |
Catholic churches and cathedrals in several cities were among the buildings damaged in the protests and riots that occurred nationwide over the past week
The post Churches in six US states damaged by violent protests appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | California, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News |
When the COVID-19 pandemic led schools to close, the day-to-day operations at Choicelunch, a healthy school lunch delivery service, paused. Choicelunch, established in 2003 by three University of Notre Dame alums, provided lunches for 25,000 children at 300 schools statewide before schools closed.
Read MoreReading 1 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18
Beloved:
Wait for and hasten the coming of the day of God,
because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames
and the elements melted by fire.
But according to his promise
we await new heavens and a new earth
in …
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Apostleship of the Sea, Bishop Brendan Cahill, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, seafarers |
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has led to new ways of ministry to seafarers.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News |
John and Megan Dugan were looking forward to March 25, John’s 50th birthday. They and their 13-year-old son, Charlie, would be on a cruise with several other families to celebrate. Then the coronavirus hit — not just the country, but the Dugans.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, Maryland, News, Pentecost |
About two and one-half months after public Masses were halted due to safety precautions against the spread of the coronavirus, parishioners came home to Mass on Pentecost Sunday, May 31, in a country church that many consider home, Our Lady of the Wayside in Chaptico, in the Archdiocese of Washington.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Catholic Living, Civil disobedience, civil rights, Featured, News, Police Abuse / Brutality / Corruption, race, Weekly Headlines |
There is no question that the death of George Floyd is highly questionable. The shocking and shameful insurgences erupting in cities across the country propose that the answer is rooted in an engrained American racism. That response, too, is highly questionable. In a sense, the reaction is as disturbing as the incident itself. As fire […]
The Indonesian province of West Java (map) is 97% Muslim and 2% Christian.
Read MorePope Francis addressed a message to consecrated virgins on the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the Rite of Consecration of Virgins.
Read More“The situation with the virus is getting worse—it is not possible to control it,” said Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako. “There are many problems—no money, not enough hospitals, doctors or equipment—and the lockdown goes against the…
Read MoreThe June 1 decision follows two similar decisions in May, when Pope Francis merged two Ontario dioceses and merged two Alaskan dioceses.
Read MorePope Francis devoted his second encyclical, Laudato si’, to care for our common home. The prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development sees protests following the death of George Floyd as “a cry for people to recognize…
Read MoreSalinas, a city of 160,000, bans “clubs, lodges, places of religious assembly, and similar assembly uses on the ground floor of buildings facing three blocks of Main Street”—leading a Protestant community, the New Harvest Church, to …
Read MoreA Vatican statement recalled the 1983 death of Modesta Valenti, “an elderly homeless woman … Several passers-by called an ambulance, which declined to assist her because of her poor hygiene.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Archdiocese of Louisville, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Native Americans, Navajo, News, Religious Sisters, Water |
As the coronavirus digs deeper into Navajo Nation, infecting Native Americans at a higher rate than anywhere in the country, 1,500 miles away a nonprofit in the Archdiocese of Louisville is working to ease the suffering.
Read MoreVatican City, Jun 2, 2020 / 03:01 am (CNA).- The Vatican Museums reopened Monday revealing newly restored frescoes in the Raphael Rooms depicting scenes from early Church history to the public.
“Today is a way that we can in some way share [beau…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Featured, News, Politics, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Weekly Headlines |
Pope Leo XIII, born 210 years ago this year, is perhaps best known for his Marianism. He was one of the Church’s greatest promoters of the Holy Rosary, and was the first pontiff to embrace the title of Mediatrix for Our Lady. Yet Leo was one of the great thinkers of the modern age, having […]
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