El Avivamiento Nacional Eucarístico June 3, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: En Español, Protagonistas de Fe En este primer episodio de Protagonistas de Fe, Marilyn Santos de la USCCB (Conferencia Católica de los Obispos de los Estados Unidos) nos relata lo más relevante sobre el Avivamiento Eucarístico Nacional, incluyendo recursos, detalles sobre el Congreso Nacional Eucarístico que tendrá lugar este verano en Indianapolis y la Peregrinación Eucarística Nacional que pasará esta semana por Baltimore.
Seminarians discern a closer walk with Jesus traveling the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 3, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vocations, World News Having seminarians join the five or six other young adult “perpetual pilgrims” and their priest and religious brother chaplains on each route provides the young men “a unique formational opportunity” that allows them “to also be a witness to other young men who may be discerning a vocation to the priesthood,” said Joel Stepanek, vice president of programming and administration for National Eucharistic Congress Inc.
Real Madrid, Europe’s best soccer team, offers championship trophy to Virgin of Almudena June 3, 2024By Santiago Tedeschi OSV News Filed Under: News, Sports, World News The archbishop of Madrid received unusual guests June 2 as Europe’s best soccer team, Real Madrid, came to the Spanish capital’s St. Mary the Royal of the Almudena Cathedral to offer its championship trophy to Mary.
Interreligious friendships are consolation amid wars, pope says June 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis began a meeting with participants in a Focolare-sponsored conference by telling the movement’s president, “I pray for your homeland; I pray so much for your homeland, which is suffering at this time.”
Workers must develop sense of belonging, pope says June 3, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Workers need spaces in which they can come together, form a sense of community and advocate for the marginalized, Pope Francis said.
Encountering a migrant is encountering Christ, pope says in message June 3, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Every encounter with people on the move as migrants or refugees is an encounter with Christ, Pope Francis said.
Corpus Christi procession is not sign of pride but invitation, pope says June 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News When Catholics carry the Eucharist through the streets, “we are not doing this to show off or to flaunt our faith” but to invite others to share in the life that Jesus gives by making himself a gift, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal: Ukraine using NATO weapons to strike Russia risks escalation June 3, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said allowing Ukraine to use NATO weapons to attack military targets in Russia would lead to “an escalation that no one will be able to control anymore.”
First visit to Poland led to Iron Curtain’s fall, historians say 45 years after St. John Paul II landmark trip June 3, 2024By Filip Mazurczak OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Forty-five years ago, on June 2, St. John Paul II started his first papal pilgrimage to his native Poland, then shackled by a communist dictatorship. The visit had not only an enormous impact on the spiritual renewal of the Polish nation, paving the way for democratic changes, but it also inspired future freedom fighters in other parts of the Soviet empire.
Dr. Robert Redfield warns against ‘scientific arrogance,’ calls for increased biosecurity June 3, 2024By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News The coronavirus pandemic was just a dress rehearsal. Something bigger is coming, according to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s not a question of if; it’s a question of when,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland who led the CDC from 2018 to 2021 and now is a disease and internal medicine physician at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.
Building the team June 3, 2024By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, From the Archbishop, Seek the City to Come Sustainable parishes are being formed that will have what it takes to offer a full range of pastoral services and to evangelize the neighborhoods they are in, while continuing ministries of service.
Pope Francis’ CBS interview is surprisingly and refreshingly clear June 2, 2024By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Stressing openness and mercy, Francis’ emphasis has been on welcoming everyone into the church, and if a mess is made along the way, so be it.
