Maryland couple donates spruce as Rockefeller Center’s 2021 Christmas tree November 17, 2021By Mike Lang Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News Hundreds of spectators, media and workers descended on the home of Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland, to watch as a 79-foot-tall, 46-foot-wide Norway spruce was cut down and removed from their property.
Bishops approve new socially responsible investment guidelines November 17, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News Bishops approved new guidelines governing financial investments of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that include wider limits on where money would be invested and advance a policy of engagement on corporate practices that impact human dignity.
Dementia and the Eucharist/What is the nativity fast? November 17, 2021By Father Kenneth Doyle Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Question Corner Father Doyle fields questions about dementia and the Eucharist, and the Nativity fast.
In-person meeting finds bishops more reflective on meaning of Eucharist November 17, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News Coming together for the first time in two years has been good for the bishops of the United States, in the judgment of Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Papal nuncio urges U.S. bishops to closely listen to the church November 17, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, spoke to the U.S. bishops Nov. 16 about the importance of listening to people in the church and being open to the work of the Holy Spirit.
Church’s evangelizing mission can heal division, archbishop tells assembly November 17, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News “People are starting to examine what they truly believe and what they value most deeply in their lives,” said Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, who spoke Nov. 16 during the opening public session of the USCCB’s Nov. 15-18 general assembly in Baltimore.
Sex abuse survivors urge bishops to denounce Church Militant’s agenda November 17, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 On the first of two days of public sessions during the U.S. bishops fall general assembly, a group of sex abuse survivors in a Nov. 16 news conference called on the prelates meeting in Baltimore to focus less on who can take Communion and instead do more to end sex abuse and other abuses by clergy.
‘Enough is enough’ rally challenges bishops to ‘see the light’ November 16, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 As more than 200 U.S. bishops met Nov. 16 at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront hotel for the annual fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a series of speakers castigated them from across the street at a waterfront pavilion during a rally sponsored by St. Michael’s Media, a conservative media organization.
Baltimore archbishop, in homily for bishops’ opening Mass, says synodality should not avoid problems November 16, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Synodality, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, Video More than 200 bishops and archbishops and six cardinals concelebrated the opening Mass for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops fall assembly, as the prelates gathered in person for the first time since November 2019.
Cardinal Gregory challenges men of St. Bernardine to be ‘breath of hope’ November 16, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory challenged a group of Black Catholic men gathered for a special Nov. 14 liturgy at St. Bernardine in West Baltimore to be “a breath of hope in the lives of so many people – beginning within your own families.”
Pope thanks reporters for speaking truth, giving voice to abuse victims November 16, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Honoring two reporters who have covered the Vatican for more than 40 years, Pope Francis paid tribute to all journalists who work to explain what is going on in the world and “make it less obscure.”
Pope urges Ratzinger Prize winners to hold fast to truth like Pope Benedict November 16, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Honoring an Australian theologian, a French philosopher and two German theologians, Pope Francis prayed that they may continually be inspired by retired Pope Benedict XVI’s episcopal motto, “Cooperatores veritatis” — co-workers in the truth.
