Vatican agency pays tribute to 18 missionaries killed in 2022 December 30, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, Vatican, World News Most of the 18 Catholic missionaries murdered in 2022 were not carrying out high-risk missions when they were assassinated but were simply “immersed and submerged in the ordinariness of their lives and their apostolic work,” said the editor of Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news service.
Archbishop Broglio visits Ukraine, meets with military chaplains December 30, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with top Ukrainian military chaplains Dec. 29 in Kyiv.
Ukrainian archbishop urges people to celebrate Christmas even amid war December 27, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Intermittent electricity and air raid sirens cannot and should not stop Ukrainians from celebrating the birth of Jesus, said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Wife of Ukrainian prisoner of war gives pope names of more POWs December 22, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The names of the prisoners were given in the hope that the pope “may be able to facilitate their liberation or at least an improvement in their conditions of detention,” the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported.
Nativity scenes on display at a record 43 state capitols, law firm says December 22, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News Private citizen groups have arranged for Nativity scenes to be on display at 43 state capitols around the country, a record number, according to a not-for-profit law firm’s tally.
Pope pays tribute to those who exercise charity December 19, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis spent part of his 86th birthday paying tribute to people who have gone above and beyond in the exercise of charity.
Two Washington archdiocesan priests appointed auxiliaries for archdiocese December 19, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has appointed two Washington archdiocesan priests, Msgr. Juan R. Esposito-Garcia and Father Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, as auxiliary bishops of their archdiocese.
Extension features Nativity art, letters by children of Ukraine, Uvalde December 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Catholic Extension’s cover story is about Christmas through the eyes of these children who “come from different cultures and parts of the world, but what they share in common is faith — faith in the midst of terror, violence and war,” the story said.
En fiesta de Guadalupe, iglesia de EE.UU. reafirma solidaridad con inmigrantes December 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español En la fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, el presidente de migración de los obispos de Estados Unidos reafirmó la solidaridad de la iglesia con los inmigrantes, “cada uno de ellos un hermano o hermana para todos nosotros”.
Celebrate Christmas ‘with Ukraine in your hearts,’ pope says, urging aid December 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Celebrating Christmas is important and beautiful, Pope Francis said, but he asked people to spend less on their celebrations this year and donate the savings to help the people of Ukraine.
On Guadalupe feast, U.S. church reaffirms its solidarity with immigrants December 13, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News On the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the U.S. bishops’ migration chairman reaffirmed the church’s solidarity with immigrants, “each one of them a brother or sister to us all.”
Catholic parish sues over its right to hire staff who uphold church tenets December 13, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A Catholic parish in the Diocese of Lansing has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to protect its right to hire parish employees and staff for its grade school who uphold the tenets of the Catholic faith.
