Vin Scully, legendary Dodgers announcer and lifelong Catholic, dies at 94 August 4, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Sports, World News Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully, best known for his 67 seasons calling games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, died at his home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles Aug. 2. He was 94.
Knights honor family of year, present inaugural Blessed McGivney Medal August 4, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News Thousands of Knights of Columbus members and their families were welcomed to Nashville Aug. 1 for the 140th annual Supreme Convention of the Catholic fraternal men’s organization with a private concert at the legendary Grand Ole Opry House.
Catholic Extension launches program for Uvalde children in wake of shooting August 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Chicago-based Catholic Extension launched the first of many initiatives it has planned over the next 18 months to support Uvalde, Texas, following the devastation of the Robb Elementary mass shooting.
Biden continues construction along parts of border wall started by Trump August 2, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Some border residents and organizations are speaking out against the Biden administration after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security revealed plans to fill in gaps of a border wall to keep migrants out near Yuma, Arizona.
Bucharest Archdiocese welcomes order to demolish building near cathedral August 1, 2022By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Romanian officials have ordered the demolition of a 23-story office building overshadowing Bucharest’s Catholic cathedral, 10 years after a ruling that it was built illegally and endangers the historic landmark.
Pope says residential-school policy was part of ‘genocide’ plan July 31, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was “genocide,” Pope Francis said.
Pope brings apology to Arctic Indigenous communities July 30, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News On a stage designed to evoke a qammaq — a traditional Inuit summer home built of whale ribs, sod and stone — Pope Francis again apologized to the Indigenous communities of Canada for Catholics’ complicity in breaking up their families and suppressing their languages.
House OKs anti-trafficking bill to ‘protect the most vulnerable among us’ July 29, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News “Critical” anti-trafficking legislation overwhelmingly approved by the House in a bipartisan vote July 26 “will go a long way toward protecting so many vulnerable people from exploitation while providing tremendous support and resources to victims,” said one of it is sponsors, Rep. Chris Smith, N.J.
Writing decision to overturn Roe an ‘honor,’ says Supreme Court justice July 29, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, Vatican, World News In his first public comments since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision that legalized abortion, Justice Samuel Alito said writing the ruling was an “honor.”
Despite papal apology, some Native Americans find it hard to forgive July 29, 2022By Barb Fraze Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When Pope Francis apologized to Canadian Indigenous for the ways in which many members of the church and of religious communities cooperated in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation at residential schools, Native Americans, like many Canadian Indigenous, said forgiveness was hard — despite their Catholic faith.
‘Our angels have wings’ Zelenskyy says on Ukrainian Statehood Day July 29, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainians will fight for their statehood to the last and will not stop until they liberate the last meter of Ukrainian land, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address for Ukrainian Statehood Day July 28.
Church cannot flee failures, but must reconcile with Indigenous, pope says July 28, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News While commentators, politicians and survivors discussed whether Pope Francis’ apology for the Catholic Church’s role in running residential schools was enough, the pope insisted reconciliation requires faith, action and the courage to move forward.
