One Year After George Floyd’s Killing: Black Catholics Are Exhausted, Yet Hopeful
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Posted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Norbertines, Obituary |
A traffic accident claimed the life of a beloved Norbertine priest on a day meant to give his religious community in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a chance to come together to pray, share stories and build bonds.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syria, Syriac Christians |
The Syriac Catholic patriarch said the situation in Syria “continues to be humanly unbearable and devastating” and risks emptying the war-torn country of its Christian community for good.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega |
Nicaraguan Catholic leaders have decried a series of repressive acts that targeted parties and individuals linked with the opposition ahead of November elections.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Can non-Catholics be saved? If so, how? These questions have been debated by Catholics since the time of the early Church. Back then, Catholics wondered about the Jews and Gentiles who lived before Christ, as well as believers who were martyred for the Catholic Faith but had not yet been baptized. In later centuries, the […]
On May 7, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent a brief letter to the minor seminary of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa.
Read More“Proclaiming the Gospel in a time of rebirth – setting out on a synodal journey” is the theme of the Italian Episcopal Conference’s 74th general assembly.
Read MoreRichard Lavigne was laicized in 2004; he died on May 21 at the age of 80 as officials were obtaining an arrest warrant.
Read MorePope Francis has written a letter to the Master General of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) for the 800th anniversary of St. Dominic’s death.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2020, Father James Altman of La Crosse urged Catholics to “repent of your support of that party [the Democratic Party] or face the fires of hell.”
Read MoreOn May 22, CELAM, the Episcopal Conference of Latin America, issued a Spanish-language statement on synodality.
Read MorePatriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s Pentecost Sunday homily followed his prayers for peace on the Vigil of Pentecost. The 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis began on May 6; a cease-fire took effect on May 21.
Read MorePope Francis received a delegation from the Ambrosoli Institute of Codogno, the northern Italian town of 15,000 where the nation’s coronavirus pandemic began.
Read MoreThe number of priests ministering in the Archdiocese of Barcelona decreased from 1,036 in 2006 to 776 in 2018.
Read More“Building Fraternity, Defending Justice Challenges and Opportunities for Insular Peoples” was the theme of the May 21 conference, organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Anglican Centre in Rome.
Read MoreThe body of St. Pio of Pietrelcino at San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Rome, Feb. 3, 2016. / Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA.
Denver Newsroom, May 25, 2021 / 03:01 am (CNA).
Early in his priesthood, Father John Paul Mary Zeller, MFVA, chaplain of EWTN, had an ‘i…
Posted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Nothing has been typical about this spring’s commencement ceremonies at Catholic colleges. Many of the ceremonies are socially distanced, outdoors, or even online. But the limitations are unlikely to dampen excitement about the distinctive achievements of the Class of 2021, who endured more than a year of COVID-19, financial struggles, and safety precautions to get […]
Posted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, News, Palestinian Christians |
For nine years, Randa Aweis battled kidney disease, urgently in need of a transplant. In mid-May, a donor was found for the 58-year-old mother of six, a Catholic Palestinian who lives in Jerusalem.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Archdiocese of Chicago, Associated Press, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News |
Nationally known activist Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger will be reinstated as the leader of his parish after an investigation found “insufficient reason to suspect” he sexually abused children, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced Monday.
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