Law firm to publish report on handling of abuse in Munich Archdiocese January 4, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News In mid-January, the law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl is scheduled to publish a report into the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
Mother Seton shrine launches initiatives to expand awareness of U.S. saint January 4, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg is launching a series of initiatives to expand awareness of first U.S.-born saint, it announced Jan. 4, on the saint’s feast day.
With foreign donation license denied, Missionaries of Charity ration food January 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Since Christmas, the Missionaries of Charity have been strictly rationing the food and daily use items for their regular 600 beneficiaries at their motherhouse and Shishu Bhavan, a children’s orphanage. On Jan. 2, the breakfast of tea, bread, and eggs was cut short by an hour.
Cardinal Gregory, who tested positive for COVID-19, remains asymptomatic January 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory announced in a Dec. 31, 2021, statement that he tested positive for COVID-19. He was asymptomatic at the time and remained so Jan. 3, according to the media relations director for the archdiocese.
Immigrants’ stories explored in book about sisters’ literacy center December 31, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Immigration and Migration, News While looking for a project so she could cross “write a book” off her bucket list, Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk thought about her time as an associate with the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois.
Two books aim to guide married couples on journey to holiness December 30, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Marriage & Family Life, News Two new books aim to refocus Catholic couples on the journey to holiness and sanctity within their marriages, families and communities.
Vatican pays tribute to 22 church workers murdered in 2021 December 30, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News In situations of extreme poverty, war or civil tensions, 22 Catholic church workers were murdered in 2021, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Vatican adds QR code to sculpture to educate people about migration December 29, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News A life-sized bronze sculpture of migrants and refugees crowded onto a boat has stood in St. Peter’s Square for more than two years, but just before Christmas a small QR code was placed on the boat’s stern to give onlookers information about the work.
Christians in Bethlehem on Christmas: Tell the world we have joy December 28, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The normal crowds of pilgrims and tourists may not have been able to come to Bethlehem for Christmas due to COVID-19 travel restrictions for a second year in a row, but local Palestinian Christians wanted to assure everyone that the Christmas spirit is still alive and well in the city of Jesus’ birth.
This year Catholics have a dual Mass obligation the weekend of Dec. 25-26 December 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News If you go to Christmas Mass on Saturday, do you still have to go to Sunday Mass the next day? Is Jan. 1, the solemnity of Mary, a holy day of obligation this year?
Tornado victims ask for prayers — and ‘don’t forget about us in a month’ December 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” Lesley Mills told The Western Kentucky Catholic, newspaper of the Owensboro Diocese, in an interview Dec. 15.
Couple: Young Catholic adults need community, parish outreach December 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, Parishes “I realized that I have gifts to be shared,” explained Patrick, 24. “But realistically I can only touch 30 people at a time. So, I must invest the time to teach those 30 to reach out to others. Find people who want to evangelize, teach them how to do it better and empower them — give them the tools — necessary to do it.”
