Prison ministry volunteers find common language with those behind bars
They are known as chaplains.
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by bcadmin | Sep 10, 2022 | Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, News, prison ministry | 0 |
They are known as chaplains.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in Europe, News, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on and joint funerals are held for the soldiers who die, Catholic military chaplains say they still see faith, hope and humanity in the soldiers with whom they minister.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Campus Ministry, Chaplains, Church in the US, News, Students | 0 |
As student anxiety skyrockets, campus ministries are trying to help by not only offering the comforts of faith and community, but also creating collaborations with mental health professionals.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Associated Press, capital punishment, Chaplains, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Religious Freedom, Texas | 0 |
A Texas death row inmate who won a reprieve when his request for his pastor to pray out loud and touch him as he received his lethal injection sparked legal debate has a new execution date.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Archbishop Peter Machado, Chaplains, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News, prison ministry | 0 |
Hindu nationalists in India want Christian chaplains banned from visiting prisons, claiming they are trying to convert the prisoners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2022 | Associated Press, capital punishment, Chaplains, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Texas | 0 |
Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that indicated states must allow spiritual advisers pray aloud and touch inmates during their executions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2022 | airport, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Bishop Brendan Cahill, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Migrants, News | 0 |
Just about every kind of person can be found in an airport — from vacationers heading for a little piece of heaven to business people whose schedules seem like hell on earth.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 20, 2021 | Associated Press, Chaplains, Church in the US, COVID-19 vaccine, Military chaplains, News, Religious exemptions, religious liberty, U.S. Military, Vaccinations | 0 |
More than 12,000 military service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are seeking religious exemptions, and so far they are having zero success.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Religious Freedom, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
The Supreme Court’s consideration of spiritual advisers praying aloud with death-row inmates or placing hands on them in prayer during executions faced an uphill battle Nov. 9.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2021 | Associated Press, capital punishment, Chaplains, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death row, Executions, News, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court is to hear arguments in a case about whether Texas must allow a chaplain to pray audibly and touch a prisoner during an execution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Death penalty, Death row, News, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican | 0 |
Dale Recinella has been serving as a Catholic correctional chaplain for inmates on death row and in solitary confinement on behalf of the Catholic bishops of Florida for decades.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | Bishop Patrick McKinney, Chaplains, Church in UK and Ireland, News, Nottingham, universities | 0 |
A Catholic chaplain will be allowed to take up his position at the University of Nottingham, after the school reversed a decision to block his appointment based on his tweets on abortion.
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