Analysis: How the synod is modeling a solution to the church’s polarization October 17, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality What’s the path to authentic unity for a deeply polarized church? The Synod on Synodality’s Oct. 4-29 gathering in Rome is both modeling and providing an answer: through personal encounter and dialogue as disciples walking together with Jesus Christ in their midst.
Convention summons Knights of Columbus to discipleship, transformation of world August 7, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News Nearly 2,300 members of the Knights of Columbus, spouses and family members gathered together from all parts of the globe Aug. 1-3 in Orlando under the theme “First in faith and charity.”
Honored by Knights, Sisters of Life founding superior shares ‘secret of loving’ behind a culture of life August 4, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, Respect Life, Vocations, World News Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the Knights’ supreme chaplain, introduced Mother Agnes as “a true disciple of the Lord working in a profoundly difficult apostolate.”
Annual convention Mass challenges Knights of Columbus to be eucharistic, bring Christ to others August 2, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News The Knights of Columbus 141st Supreme Convention held Aug. 1-3 in Orlando gathered Knights, both lay and clergy, from all over the globe at the Orlando World Center Marriott, showing its international reach and “Catholic” nature of the brotherhood, encompassing men of diverse cultures, languages and continents all held together by the same faith in Jesus Christ.
Supreme Knight: Knights of Columbus deepen faith in Jesus, make charity personal August 2, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News In his address for the 141st Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, Patrick Kelly illustrated how the Knights’ goal of being “first in faith, first in charity” drew its source from a commitment to follow Jesus Christ.
U.S. bishops advance pastoral initiatives to strengthen church amid discussions on Eucharist, priesthood, synodality June 19, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved ahead on some efforts to advance the church’s mission in the U.S., including new pastoral initiatives aimed at activating Catholics as missionary disciples.
Archbishop Pierre: With Christ as ‘true north,’ synodality empowers the church to be ‘more effective’ in its mission June 16, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, World News At the U.S. Catholic bishops’ June assembly, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal representative to the U.S., laid out the Vatican’s case for how embracing synodality — with Jesus Christ as their “true north” — can help bishops carry out the church’s evangelizing mission with their people.
