Bishop Rhoades says norms were never intent of potential document on Eucharist June 17, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops' Meeting - Spring 2021, World News Creating national norms was never the intent behind a proposal to write a new statement on the Eucharist, said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine.
Nuncio points to dialogue as a step toward unity after pandemic June 16, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops' Meeting - Spring 2021, World News The papal nuncio to the United States told the U.S. bishops that dialogue is a key step on the path to unity as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
Twin seminarians at Baltimore seminary following one after the other into the priesthood June 8, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations There may be one way to tell the Daghir twins apart: Ben is further ahead than Luke in his graduate seminary work. Ben was ordained a transitional deacon in May, and if all goes well, will be ordained to the priesthood for the twins’ native Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, over the Memorial Day weekend next year.
Report shows 19,000 U.S. deacons; age, retirement are factors for diaconate June 3, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Vocations, World News Based on responses to a questionnaire sent to all U.S. dioceses, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate estimates there are about 19,000 deacons in the United States today.
Hearing mulls 2022 Winter Olympic boycott over China human rights record May 20, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News “If we can delay an Olympics for a year because of a pandemic, surely we can delay the Olympics for a year because of a genocide,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
Catholic actors Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson begin film on priest’s life May 10, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Filming has begun on “Stu,” which tells the story of a Father Stuart Long, a onetime boxer who became a priest and died in 2014.
San Diego bishop: Don’t weaponize the Eucharist for political ends May 6, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News “The Eucharist must never be instrumentalized for a political end, no matter how important,” said Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego in a May 5 essay published on the website of America magazine, the Jesuit journal.
Network Catholic social justice lobby to get its first lay leader March 24, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Network, the Catholic social justice lobby that has been run by women religious since its founding 50 years ago, will get its first lay leader effective April 6.
Easter church attendance likely to be far behind pre-pandemic levels March 23, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Easter, Feature, News, World News Only 3% of Catholic churches in the United States are open and having Mass as they had before the pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center report issued March 22.
‘Francis Factor’ still resonates eight years into his papacy March 22, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The qualities embodied in Pope Francis’ papacy that led to the coinage of the term “Francis Factor” to define them still exist, according to participants on a panel during a March 18 dialogue.
John Sweeney dies; child of Irish immigrants was national labor leader February 3, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News John Sweeney, who led the AFL-CIO for 14 years from 1995 to 2009, and headed one of the nation’s largest unions, the Service Employees International Union, for 15 years before that, died Feb. 1 at age 86 at his home in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland
Pro-life witness is rooted in the Eucharist, Archbishop Lori says January 29, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life “The Eucharist unites and strengthens us in our efforts to secure justice for the unborn, and to create a culture wherein every human life is cherished, nurtured and protected from the moment of conception until natural death,” said Archbishop Lori, chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
