Cardinal Burke remains hospitalized, but he’s off ventilator, out of ICU August 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off a ventilator that he had been on for some days and taken out of the ICU to be returned to a regular hospital room, according to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse.
U.S. missionary nuns fly home after quake to organize shipment to Haiti August 23, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Getting emergency supplies and aid into the Haiti region most impacted by the Aug. 14 earthquake will prove a major logistical challenge, said two missionary nuns who work in Haiti.
Seek God through a relationship with Christ, others, pope says at Angelus August 23, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News God can be found in the humanity of Jesus and in the people one meets in life, Pope Francis said.
Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.
Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past August 20, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Saints, World News In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes.
Movie Review: ‘The Protege’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Director Martin Campbell’s sleek yet brutal thriller “The Protege” (Lionsgate) not only depicts the activities of its principal characters, all of them assassins, in unsparing bloody detail. It also presents its own alternate version of morality.
Movie Review: ‘Reminiscence’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Part dystopian adventure, part neo-noir mystery, “Reminiscence” (Warner Bros.) is undone by its own sense of importance.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway August 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
Arlington Bishop: Church has ‘sacred duty’ to speak truth about human person, gender August 19, 2021By Zoey Maraist Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The topic of transgenderism is discussed routinely in the news, on television shows and in schools.
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans August 18, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees called on the U.S. government to “act with utmost urgency” to resettle thousands of Afghan citizens entering the country under special immigrant visas.
Washington Archdiocese launches new action plan to care for creation August 18, 2021By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News With a new action plan, the Archdiocese of Washington is encouraging parishes, Catholic schools and other institutions, families and individuals to follow the guidance of Pope Francis to protect the earth, care for all human life, and combat climate change using education and actions small and large.
