Head of bishops’ anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories May 31, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Ahead of the U.S. bishops’ meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 14-16, Bishop Joseph N. Perry said that new investigations by church institutions into their involvement with slavery and Indian boarding schools are “very healthy” and aid a collective examination of conscience.
Eucharistic Revival playbook offers direction, ideas for parish year May 11, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Parish leaders seeking guidance for the National Eucharistic Revival’s upcoming parish year now have a 24-page resource to assist their discernment.
‘Eye-opening experience’ the church needs is found in Eucharist, says U.S. apostolic nuncio May 1, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, said he is “convinced that the church today is in need of an eye-opening experience,” similar to the experience of the two disciples who encountered Jesus along the road to Emmaus following the Resurrection, but who did not recognize him until they shared a meal.
Choral project explores how major religions welcome immigrants, refugees October 21, 2022By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News After creating an interfaith choir to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Vatican in 2018, the Together in Hope Project choir has a new choral project that explores major faiths’ traditions of welcoming the refugee, immigrant and outcast.
Two decades after 9/11, Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Jr.’s legacy lives on September 10, 2021By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: 9/11, Feature, News, World News There isn’t a day that goes by that Tom and Beverly Burnett don’t think about Sept. 11, 2001, and what that day cost their family: the life of their son, Tom Burnett Jr., who helped to lead the effort to take back United Airlines Flight 93 from its terrorist hijackers.
Dioceses respond to pope’s document restoring limits on pre-Vatican II Mass July 19, 2021By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, World News Bishops throughout the United States have begun responding to Pope Francis’ document that restores limits on the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass.
National Eucharistic Revival aims to ‘to light fire’ among the faithful June 21, 2021By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Catholics can expect added emphasis on the Eucharist at all levels of the church beginning next summer, culminating in a large-scale national event in 2024.
Catholic school grad hopes app can assist in civilian, police interactions June 8, 2021By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Pulled over by police, nervous and unsure of what to do? There’s an app for that, thanks to the work of a Catholic school alumnus and his partners.
Pope accepts resignation of bishop who heads Minnesota’s Crookston Diocese April 13, 2021By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Michael J. Hoeppner, 71, who has headed the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, since 2007.
New report details abuse, assault allegations against Catholic composer Haas October 14, 2020By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News A report detailing sexual abuse and assault allegations against Catholic musician and composer David Haas describes him using his influence as a faith leader in grooming victim/survivors and suppressing reports or concerns about his behavior.
With new claims against composer, Minnesota archdiocese restricts local concerts July 10, 2020By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Catholic hymn composer David Haas is not permitted to give presentations, workshops or concerts at events hosted by Catholic entities in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and his music will no longer be used at archdiocesan events, the archdiocese announced July 8.
Catholic composer denies claims of sexual misconduct; publisher cuts ties June 17, 2020By Maria Wiering Filed Under: News, World News Catholic composer David Haas denies allegations of sexual misconduct with adult women that led his music publisher, GIA Publications, to suspend its relationship with him.