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Posted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID restrictions, News |
As Catholic parishes across the country are loosening pandemic Mass restrictions and several bishops are lifting the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Masses, Catholic leaders are looking at ways to encourage the faithful to come back.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, News |
A former top official in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis mishandled clergy sex abuse cases and failed to protect children from abusive priests, an archdiocese investigation has concluded.
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Washington D.C., Jun 4, 2021 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Boston is planning on opening its first new Catholic school in more than 50 years, featuring a “blended learning” experience of online and in-person ins…
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Ad Hoc Commitee for Religious Liberty, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, US bishops, USCCB |
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops invites Catholics “to pray, reflect and act to promote religious freedom” during Religious Freedom Week, which is set for June 22-29 and has as its theme “Solidarity in Freedom.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Davenport, Iowa, Murder, News |
A senior high picture of Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old college student slain while jogging in her Iowa hometown three years ago, remains pinned to the bulletin board of Angie Gritsch, the former youth minister at Tibbetts’ parish.
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Washington D.C., Jun 4, 2021 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is refusing to turn over its records to a state investigation into clergy s…
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | News, News Analysis, Top Story, Vatican |
It took guts for Cardinal Marx to do what he’s done. It took guts for Pope Francis to let him. Whatever else Cardinal Marx has done — whatever the ecclesiastical repercussions, whatever the ecclesiological fallout — he has done the thing that no other senior Churchman has shown himself capable of doing.
The post A World of Hurt: Cardinal Marx’s resignation appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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Bogotá, Colombia, Jun 4, 2021 / 13:20 pm (CNA).
Fr. Nelson Medina, a Dominican priest from Colombia, responded to the June 2 Instagram video posted by Fr. James Martin in which he maintained that a Catholic can celebrate ga…
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Warsaw, Poland, Jun 4, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Polish Catholics are beginning a 100-day countdown to the beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the former Primate of Poland who heroically resisted communism.Wyszyński wi…
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Vatican City, Jun 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis said Friday that environmental degradation is “a clear outcome of economic dysfunction.”In a June 4 message marking the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the pope…
Posted by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2021 | Catholic Hotdish, Corpus Christ, Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, News, Pentecost |
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is celebrated every year on the Second Sunday after Pentecost. The traditional name for the feast is Corpus Christi. It is one of the three doctrinal feasts celebrated during Ordinary Time.
Read MoreAnglophone separatist group in southwestern Cameroon releases a Catholic priest after holding him captive for more than nine days
Read MoreChristians must “side with the oppressed” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says Paris-based Catholic activists
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