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Mark Pattison

Mark Pattison writes for the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Pope’s spirit ‘remains vigorous,’ nuncio tells faithful at basilica Mass, rosary for ailing pontiff

March 4, 2025
By Mark Pattison
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The pope’s health was the prime focus of the Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States. Following the Mass, the rosary was recited.

Eucharistic Congress a way for African Catholics to bridge continents, cultures

July 24, 2023
By Mark Pattison
Catholic Standard
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

The African National Eucharistic Congress allows Africa-born Catholics in the diaspora to do something that would have been nearly impossible to do in their homelands: to meet their fellow African Catholics and learn about their cultures while growing in the Lord’s love.

Writing about Georgetown’s history of involvement in slavery has not shaken author’s Catholic faith

July 10, 2023
By Mark Pattison
OSV News
Filed Under: Books, Colleges, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News

Since 2016, Rachel L. Swarns has been researching Georgetown University’s involvement in the slave trade, including the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people to help pay off debts the Jesuit priests incurred in running the university.

Trip to Uvalde, Texas, leaves Capitol Hill pastor ‘still processing’ how deep community’s trauma remains

June 9, 2023
By Mark Pattison
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News

Father Dan Carson was one of 14 Catholic clergy and lay leaders to spend three days in the town where feelings are still raw and wounds of all kinds are slowly healing from a mass shooting at a grade school one year ago that claimed the lives of 19 students and two of their teachers.

Pope Benedict’s 2008 U.S. visit a whirlwind with timely, pointed messages

December 31, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News

When Pope Benedict came to the United States for a visit to Washington and New York spanning six days in mid-April 2008, some news accounts called the pace of his schedule “grueling.”

Oregon commutations, Oklahoma scheduling pace key death penalty report

December 30, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Even though 2022 was another year with fewer than 30 executions, more than half of those were in just two states, Oklahoma and Texas.

As Dallas charter turns 20, abuse has become issue for much of society

December 27, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News

Twenty years later, at their assembly in Baltimore Nov. 14-17, the bishops acknowledged the charter’s anniversary and said that they have made steps in addressing clergy sexual abuse and would continue to listen, care for and walk with survivors.

Another year of ‘limbo on earth’ for immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers

December 26, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

The number of those in America without legal documentation has climbed into eight figures.

Pope enlists a willing warrior to spread the message of ‘Laudato Si’

December 11, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Movie & Television Reviews, Vatican

Nicolas Brown directed “The Letter: A Message for Our Earth,” a documentary on the pope’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

‘O Holy Night’ tops all hymns used in churches in December, according to poll

December 6, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News

The Christmas carol “O Holy Night” ranked first in a list of hymns most played in December at Christian churches in the United States.

Director: Title of Polish cardinal’s biopic has dual meaning

December 1, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The movie “PROFIT,” a biopic about 20th-century Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, delves into the Polish Communist Party’s yearslong operation to delegitimize him.

Did Latinos affect politics or the other way around? Forum seeks clues

November 21, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

Jens Manuel Krogstad of the Pew Research Center, in his work studying Latino demographics and politics, noted that Latinos do not identify as strongly with either the Democratic or Republican parties as do other Americans.

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