The elderly can unite all generations, save humanity, pope says August 17, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Seniors, Vatican, World News Pope Francis dedicated his general audience talk to the urgent need for young and old to come together so older people can share their faith and wisdom about the world.
New course aims to instruct new Catholics, reenergize lifelong Catholics August 17, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News A new online study course titled “What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith” was “created by a few very imperfect disciples who happen to be crazy about Christ and his church,” said one of the authors and presenters of the course.
God spoke to me through my espresso August 16, 2022By Father J. Collin Poston Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Dust and Dewfall The Lord can surely teach us patience – to wait on him and to wait for our prayers and he is sure answer to them.
‘Do not worry about tomorrow’ August 16, 2022By Effie Caldarola Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, For the Journey, Guest Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Jesus is speaking to our human tendency to worry, sometimes ceaselessly, about tomorrow, about yesterday, about the far-off future and the long-dead past. Regrets can nag us from one direction, fear from the other.
Digital world leaves some ‘hyperconnected and alone,’ Vatican official says August 16, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News Good journalism has to be creative and promote communication that focuses on dialogue, intelligence and helping build active communities, said the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.
‘Esclavos y Reyes’ muestra la vida española de un santo en el siglo XIX August 16, 2022By John Mulderig Filed Under: En Español El conflicto social que agitó a España, tanto durante el siglo XIX como en el período previo a su trágica guerra civil de 1936-39, sirve de fondo para la biografía de “Esclavos y Reyes” (Bosco).
New triptych icon has origins in Archdiocese of Baltimore August 16, 2022By Nancy Menefee Jackson Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Protected from light but available to visitors in Ann Arbor, Mich., a triptych icon graces the chapel of the motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. What the casual visitor might not know is that the icon was commissioned by a now-deceased parishioner from Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City.
LCWR president outlines ‘map-shaping’ concepts for future of religious life August 16, 2022By Soli Salgado Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Vocations, World News Staring down a future of uncertainty, religious life finds itself in need of a map, the outgoing president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious told the organization’s members.
Movie Review: ‘Slaves and Kings’ looks at life of 19th-century Spanish saint August 15, 2022By John Mulderig Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews The social strife that roiled Spain, both during the 19th century and in the lead-up to that nation’s tragic 1936-39 civil war, serves as the background for the biography “Slaves and Kings”.
Principal calls vandalism at Catholic school in Washington ‘a hate crime’ August 15, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling “a hate crime.”
Más allá de la frontera, la espera para reunificación familiar es larga August 15, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español La voz de Jorge Alvarenga parece quebrantarse un poco cuando el joven de 31 años comienza a recordar y hablar sobre la última vez que vio a su madre en El Salvador. Él tenía 14 años. Ella estaba en la en ya estaba bien en camino en su segunda década de vida. Todavía estaba oscuro cuando ella subió a un auto.
Sister Bernadette Wilson, L.S.P., dies at 71 August 15, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Little Sister of the Poor Bernadette Wilson will be offered Aug. 17 at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville. Sister Bernadette died Aug. 12. She was 71.
