Bishops approve English, Spanish documents on lay ministry to the sick 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 agreed to consider revised texts, in both English and Spanish, for the anointing of the sick.
Analysis: Even if you’re getting TV for free, you’re paying for it somehow November 3, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Movie & Television Reviews Our latest advance is streaming TV. For those unclear on the concept, you pay a monthly fee in exchange for everything in that streamer’s library of titles and episodes.
NCEA reports quicker academic recovery from pandemic for Catholic schools November 2, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Schools, World News The National Catholic Educational Association says Catholic schools have recovered more quickly from the pandemic than their public school counterparts.
Abortion-related questions take center stage in new American Values Survey October 28, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News Abortion-related questions — and Americans’ responses to them — were front and center in the new American Values Survey issued Oct. 27 by the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute.
Bishops wrestled with possibility of nuclear annihilation in pastoral letter October 19, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Over the course of three years, the U.S. bishops not only wrestled with the specter of nuclear Armageddon in writing a pastoral letter, but how to convey that teaching effectively.
‘The Challenge of Peace’ 40 years later: Durable principles, changed world October 19, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ landmark pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response.”
Advocates already pushing for a satisfactory farm bill in 2023 October 9, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News The current farm bill doesn’t expire until 2023, yet already advocates are lining up their arguments to assemble the kind of farm bill they want to see next year.
Seminar panelists: Clergy abuse has scarred minority Catholic communities October 7, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News The image of a white victim does not tell the complete story of clergy sexual abuse in the United States, according to a number of panelists during an Oct. 5 online forum titled “Neglected Voices in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.”
Actor, filmmaker on North Dakota Catholic college’s faculty showcases state October 6, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Daniel Bielinski is one of many actors who holds down a second job. His is as program chair of dramatic arts at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D.
Updated data by group in Annapolis showing faith can aid in recovery prompts support, skepticism September 28, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News An updated version of a 2019 paper that cites the presence of religious belief as an aid in recovery, particularly from mental health and substance abuse issues, has met with both support and skepticism.
Study: Christianity may lose majority, plurality status in U.S. by 2070 September 14, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News If trends of the past 30 years continue for the next 50, Christianity will lose its majority status in the United States by 2070, according to a new demographic study by the Pew Research Center.
Priest: Workers can look to saints, holy men and women for inspiration September 7, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Workers can look to holy men and women of the past for comfort in knowing that someone in heaven knows what they’re going through in their job, said the spiritual moderator of the Catholic Labor Network in an online Labor Day Mass Sept. 5.
