Pope urges diplomats to be signs of hope, promoters of cooperation June 10, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News In a world torn by strife, diplomacy offers hope by promoting dialogue, solidarity and cooperation for the common good, Pope Francis said.
Jesus frees from the slavery of power, money, pleasure, pope says June 10, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Imbued with the Holy Spirit, Jesus is the model for loving and serving others freed from the pursuit of wealth, power or fame, Pope Francis said.
Rome’s true nature is to be welcoming, caring for all, pope says June 10, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Rome is unique and has a vocation as a universal city, Pope Francis said.
Panel: Civil Rights Act brought needed change but fight for equality, end of racism ongoing June 10, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News On June 4, a panel at Georgetown University in Washington — “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 After 60 Years: Challenges and Questions for Voters and the Nation in 2024” hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life — gathered to assess both progress, and the problems that remain.
Radio Interview: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 10, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with two of the permanent pilgrims on the Seton Route, Zoe Dongas and Amayrani Higueldo, to talk about their inspiration to make the 65-day pilgrimage and their experiences along the way.
Gudziak: US still ‘in the thick of things’ regarding mental health, but church can foster healing June 9, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News In the wake of Mental Health Awareness Month, the U.S. is still “in the thick of things” and “will be for a long time” in addressing mental well-being, a leader of the U.S. bishops’ mental health initiative told OSV News.
GIVEN forum equips young women to pursue their unique callings June 8, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Over 300 Catholic women from all walks of life will gather in Washington from June 8 to 12 to participate in the GIVEN Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program and the Catholic Women’s Leadership Forum. It will be the fifth GIVEN forum since the group’s founding; the previous forums were held in 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 and 2022.
‘He’s truly there:’ Hundreds of pilgrims process with Eucharist through Baltimore streets June 7, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News “Even as beautiful as this place is, even as beautiful as any church or altar or tabernacle or sacred vessel, you were created to hold God and to be the vessel that carries him into the world,” Bishop Lewandowski said, “so that the world might know his loving presence, his grace, his goodness, his mercy and his salvation.”
On historic D-Day anniversary, Catholic veteran says faith has always helped him in ‘tight corner’ June 7, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Western heads of state and government gathered in northern France to mark 80 years since the monumental D-Day invasion that helped secure victory in World War II, one veteran, now age 100, had special memories to share.
Eucharistic pilgrims inspired by Bread of Life – and food truck fare June 7, 2024By Katie V. Jones Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News As a stop on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, the cathedral hosted vespers and eucharistic preaching by Father Patalinghug, who switched from his robes to an apron to work in his Grace and Grub Food Truck as soon as the liturgy ended.
Our Lady of Pompei has 100-year history of serving immigrant communities June 7, 2024By Kurt Jensen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2024 During a special June 2 Mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first Mass inside the completed church, Archbishop William E. Lori highlighted the faith community’s long history of welcoming others and its commitment to the Eucharist.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ‘is so radical and so crazy, and I’m glad,’ pilgrim says June 7, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News On their third week of the pilgrimage, however, the perpetual pilgrims — young adults traveling the full lengths of the four National Eucharistic Pilgrimage routes with the Eucharist — reported meeting enthusiasm at every stop since setting out from points in California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Texas May 18-19.
