Famed Italian tenor sings two songs in new ‘Fatima’ movie August 27, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News “As a Christian, I joyfully agreed to provide my contribution to develop such a moving and crucial story for the big screen as it involves our heavenly Mother Mary, consoler and mediatrix,” said Bocelli
Sixty years after JFK, wait continues for the second Catholic president August 16, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News Thirty-three men between George Washington and John F. Kennedy served as U.S. president. Until Kennedy, all were white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. It took 172 years for a Catholic to win the presidency.
Black Catholics laud Harris pick; others scrutinize past record August 12, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, as his vice presidential running mate elicited broad smiles from key black Catholics. Others, though, started criticizing her record nearly as soon as the pick was publicized Aug. 11.
Disappearance of Chinese bishop is subject of congressional hearing August 2, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Congress, World News “We are saddened by the recent reports that Bishop Su may have died during his recent imprisonment,” said Nury Turkel, a Uighur American who is a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in testimony during the hearing. Bishop Su, if he is alive, would be 88 years old.
Regis Philbin dies; Catholic TV host logged 17,000-plus hours on tube July 27, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News Regis Philbin, the Catholic talk- and game-show host whose career in television spanned six decades, died July 24 at age 88 of cardiovascular disease at a hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he lived.
MLB’s first woman coach a ‘go-getter’ at Jesuit university July 25, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Sports, World News Another barrier in the sports world was broken July 20 when Alyssa Nakken coached first base in the late innings of an exhibition game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, thus becoming the first woman to appear in uniform on the field during a major league baseball game. The Giants won the game, 6-2.
Priest’s love of math, baseball helps him develop new stat measures July 19, 2020By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Sports, World News WASHINGTON (CNS) — WAR, what is it good for? For Edwin Starr, the answer was “absolutely nothin’” — although “somethin’” might be a better answer, since he had a No. 1 hit with the tune in 1970. But for Dominican Father Humbert Kilanowski, he’s got a different answer, because he’s asking a different question. Father […]
Catholic leaders decry prisoners’ exposure to COVID-19 during pandemic May 22, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, World News A May 19 statement by 14 Catholic leaders, including five bishops, decried the danger people in prison are exposed to during the coronavirus pandemic.
Few sermons mention abortion in U.S. Christianity, Pew finds April 30, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The percentage of sermons about abortion is in the single digits, according to a Pew Research Center study, the results of which were released April 29.
Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S. April 29, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
Ray Repp dies; wrote ‘Allelu!’, ‘Hear, O Lord,’ ‘I Am the Resurrection’ April 27, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: News, Obituaries, World News Ray Repp, the liturgical musician who spearheaded the concept of the folk group-led “guitar Mass” with his “Mass for Young Americans,” died April 26 in Palm Springs, California, of complications from cancer. He was 77.
Cardinal Dolan: ‘Our faith needs to kick in’ amid pandemic crisis April 13, 2020By Mark Pattison Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, World News Appearing on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said faith is key, even as people are in isolation from others as a result of the stay-at-home orders imposed to slow a worsening of the coronavirus pandemic.
