Franciscan Monastery in Washington is sacred ground leading people to Christ, cardinal says September 24, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory celebrated a Sept. 22 Mass to mark the 125th anniversary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington by reminding the faithful the church building is “something far more precious than a simple structure or a functional edifice.”
Shrine Mass marks centennial of first priestly ordinations at ‘Mary’s House’ in Washington August 26, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News As part of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception’s continuing celebration marking 100 years of worship at “Mary’s House,” as it’s often called, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a Mass of thanksgiving for all the priests who were ordained or otherwise connected to the church.
More than 1,200 take to the streets of nation’s capital for National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 10, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News More than 1,200 faithful took to the streets of the nation’s capital June 8 to celebrate the arrival of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Washington with prayers, songs and a procession.
Deadly shooting at subway station near Catholic U. prompts temporary shelter-in-place order April 5, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News In the hours after a Washington teenage boy was shot and killed April 4 on the platform of the Brookland-CUA Metro station, The Catholic University of America canceled evening classes and athletic practices and advised students to shelter in place as police officials investigated the incident.
St. John Paul II National Shrine exhibit tells story of Ulma family’s ‘sacrificial love’ January 21, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News An exhibit on the martyred Ulma family currently on display at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington is a worthy tribute to the Polish family whom Pope Francis said is “for all of us a model to imitate in striving for goodness and in the service of those in need.”
Eucharist should inspire work for justice, Cardinal Gregory says at Unity Mass for ANEC July 23, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News At a July 22 Unity Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C,. for the fourth African National Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Wilton Gregory urged congress participants to work for justice, to care for others and to protect the environment.
At African National Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Gregory calls Eucharist ‘an incredible gift’ and ‘path to unity’ July 22, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Calling the Eucharist “an incredible gift that the Lord has given us,” Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory said July 22 that the Most Blessed Sacrament unites all Catholics “no matter our language, liturgical style, or cultural expressions.”
Archbishop: Months leading to synod are times for faithful to live response to divine grace ‘more intensely’ June 1, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, World News The months leading up to the October world Synod of Bishops in Rome offer an opportunity for the faithful “to live more intensely our response to divine grace,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said May 31.
‘Have mercy and save us’: Ecumenical prayer service at national basilica pleads for peace in Ukraine March 8, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Marking the first anniversary of the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and praying that God will “have mercy and save us” and “convert those who foster aggression and war,” Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, led a March 7 ecumenical prayer service for peace at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
A bishop ‘must preach, inspire people to long for the Lord,’ cardinal tells new auxiliaries February 23, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News Newly ordained Bishops Juan R. Esposito-Garcia and Evelio Menjivar-Ayala promised to “proclaim with fidelity and constancy the Gospel of Jesus Christ” and to “always be kind and sympathetic to the poor, immigrants and with all those in need.”
Gregory: World needs African Americans’ ‘strength of character’; it ‘resides within the souls of our people’ February 6, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, World News Celebrating a Feb. 5 Mass in honor of Black History Month, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory urged “ordinary people of color” to “vastly improve our world with an understanding of the strength of character that resides within the souls of our people.”
At Mass before March for Life, young people urged to ‘witness to the truth that every life matters’ January 20, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The hundreds of teens and young adults from across the Archdiocese of Washington who gathered Jan. 20 prior to the annual March for Life at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington were urged to be “witnesses to life, witnesses to the truth that every life matters.”
