Pope Benedict’s 2008 U.S. visit a whirlwind with timely, pointed messages December 31, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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.
Pace of preparations is quickening as synod on synodality approaches November 17, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News Work is proceeding — and quickly — on next October’s synod on synodality, according to Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, in a Nov. 15 report to his fellow bishops.
Pandemic, inflation, communications shakeup alter USCCB budget picture November 17, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News The coronavirus pandemic, combined with inflation and a reorganization of the U.S. bishops’ communication arm, have altered the budget picture for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the 2020s.
Bishops give their OK to advance sainthood causes of three U.S. Catholics November 17, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News The U.S. bishops gave their consent for the advancement of the sainthood causes of three U.S. Catholics at the local diocesan level.
Bishops approve new Mass texts for St. Paul VI, Our Lady of Loreto November 16, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments The U.S. bishops took on the task during their fall general meeting in Baltimore of considering proposed Mass texts for the feasts of Our Lady of Loreto and the recently canonized St. Paul VI.
