Speakers’ remarks on synod reflect tensions, hopes for renewed missionary spirit in church September 9, 2023By Matthew Gambino OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News From its beginning in 2021, the church’s synod on synodality has raised a question: Where is this worldwide process of listening to the people of God, especially those on the margins, going?
Report: $78 million paid to sex abuse victims in Philadelphia Archdiocese June 3, 2022By Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid close to $78.5 million of a total of more than $81 million awarded to 438 victims of sexual abuse by archdiocesan clergy under the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program, which released its final report June 2.
Lou Baldwin, Catholic journalist for 35 years, dies at 86 October 22, 2021By Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Obituaries, World News Louis “Lou” Baldwin, a Catholic journalist and a gentleman known by generations of Philadelphia Catholics for his bylines for 35 years, died Oct. 18 in Philadelphia. He was 86.
Roar from congregation greets Philadelphia’s new shepherd at installation February 19, 2020By Matthew Gambino Filed Under: News, World News “Never underestimate the power of the Spirit of God working in you, through you and despite you,” the new archbishop said.