Biritual priests seen as witnesses to the Catholic Church’s ‘great unity’ in liturgical diversity August 25, 2024By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The Catholic Church is made up of two dozen “Catholic churches,” each belonging to seven ritual families — Alexandrian, Armenian, Byzantine, Chaldean, Latin, Maronite and Syriac — and each church in that ritual family having its own distinctive traditions and liturgical variations.
Focolare addresses overcoming polarization, promoting fruitful dialogue in this election year May 11, 2024By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News With Catholic social teaching falling neither purely red nor purely blue, American Catholics often find themselves in the pews with folks of varying political opinions.
As Eastern, Latin Catholics discover each other’s richness, their bond grows December 10, 2023By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News While Pope Francis has been giving prominent roles to Eastern Catholic leaders in the Synod on Synodality, which recently concluded its first session in Rome, the bond between the 23 Eastern Catholic churches and the Latin Church also grows at the local level
Eastern Catholic parishes evangelize through liturgy, outreach and community life September 9, 2023By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Inviting others into their rich liturgical traditions, fostering belonging in small communities and reaching out to the secular world via podcasts and “coffee shop ministry,” many Eastern Catholic parishes have unique ways of bringing people to full life in Jesus Christ as his disciples.
Good questions, FOCUS and large stuffed pigs: one new Catholic’s journey to the faith April 8, 2023By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Evangelization, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The annual SEEK conferences hosted by FOCUS are for anyone interested in deepening their faith and spreading the Gospel.
