Guaras truly lived ‘bond of love’ that is family life, says Florida pastor July 8, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Father Juan Sosa, pastor of the Catholic church that is close to the now-demolished condominium building in Surfside, held up a photo of 11-year-old Lucia Guara’s first Communion in 2019. He placed it on the casket holding her and her sister, Emma, 4, during the funeral Mass July 6 for the girls and their parents.
Haitian church ‘stunned’ by president’s assassination, says bishop July 8, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Bishop Alphonse Quesnel of Fort Liberté, Haiti, said the Haitian church was “stunned” by the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Next term: Court to take up religious schools, rejects wedding florist case July 6, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News The day after issuing its final opinions for the current term, the Supreme Court announced it was taking up one religious rights case and rejecting another for its next term.
Archbishop Gomez: On July 4, let’s also honor missionaries’ role in nation’s founding July 3, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News As the nation’ celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, Americans should recall the country’s “other founding” by the missionaries who, beginning in the 1500s, came to proclaim “the love of Jesus Christ to Indigenous peoples,” said Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez.
Tokyo Catholic churches to keep restrictive measures during Olympics June 30, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Olympics, Sports, World News The Tokyo Archdiocese says it will maintain infection control measures despite the Japanese government having lifted the COVID-19 state of emergency in many cities ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Two more First Nations churches destroyed in ‘suspicious’ fires June 29, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two more Catholic churches on First Nations land have been destroyed by fire, while fire damaged an Anglican church on First Nations land in northern British Columbia. Police are calling all the blazes “suspicious.”
Charter on religious freedom rights released ahead of international summit June 29, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Religious freedom advocates released a charter declaring the right of every person around the world to freely believe — or not believe — religious tenets and join with others in a religious community and for believers and religious communities to live peacefully in society.
Pope names two U.S. cardinals, Altoona bishop to Vatican supreme court June 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to be members of the Vatican’s supreme court.
Communion proposal highlights first two days of bishops’ meeting June 17, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops' Meeting - Spring 2021, World News A proposed document to examine the “meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church” received a thorough discussion June 17 during the second day of U.S. bishops’ spring general assembly.
Knights seen as ‘poised’ to lead way to recovery, renewal as pandemic ends June 14, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News The new CEO of the Knights of Columbus said the international fraternal organization’s members “are poised to lead the way toward recovery and a future of renewal.”
Para los padres, San José es un fuerte modelo de humildad y servicio June 14, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español San José es un fuerte modelo para los padres porque era humilde, tenía una profesión y trabajaba para mantener a su familia, y Jesús lo admiraba –dijo el padre mariano Donald Calloway.
Canadian bishops: Indigenous delegation to meet with pope by end of 2021 June 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A delegation of Indigenous people from Canada will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican before the end of the year, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said.
