Christ’s resurrection brings hope amid ‘Easter of war,’ pope says April 17, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The joy of Christ’s resurrection is needed now more than ever in a time when war in Ukraine and other parts of the world makes the hope for peace seem like an illusion, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter blessing.
Never too old: Seniors over 90 welcomed into Catholic faith at Easter April 17, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Local News, News, Uncategorized After a period of instruction in the faith and guided by Kathy Schmitt, pastoral administrator at Oak Crest, Kenneth Davis was received into the Catholic Church earlier this year, receiving his first Communion Feb. 26 at the senior facility’s chapel.
Risen Christ brings peace to broken world, pope says at Easter Vigil April 16, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News he joy of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead gives joy and strength to those who are called to bring peace, reconciliation and justice to the suffering and the downtrodden, Pope Francis said.
The poetic fun of spring April 16, 2022By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window The trees are pink and white and green All wearing spring’s fantastic sheen.
Ukraine’s Way of the Cross: Papal almoner prays at mass grave April 16, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Mass graves and the deceased still lying along the roadside became a kind of “Way of the Cross” where Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, and Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, stopped and prayed.
Marriage proposal in RCIA class a first for Harford County parish April 16, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, It's about love, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News Matthew Sennett, a parishioner of St. Margaret in Bel Air, chose a much less glamorous, but meaningful path for his proposal. He proposed to girlfriend, Bethany Smith, during her Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults class at their Harford County parish.
Good Friday gathering in Cumberland welcomes multiple denominations April 15, 2022By Greg Larry Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Western Vicariate A demonstration of Christian love was on display in Cumberland April 15 as an ecumenical Good Friday procession wound its way through a part of the city known as “Holy Hill.”
Ukrainian, Russian women hold cross together at Rome’s Via Crucis April 15, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said.
Before washing prisoners’ feet, pope tells them God always forgives April 14, 2022By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Before washing the feet of 12 inmates, Pope Francis told them and other prisoners that God never tires of forgiving anyone who asks.
Learning to love the cry room April 14, 2022By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary I now consider the cry room a sanctuary within a sanctuary, a gift of which only compassionate and loving parent-architects could have conceived.
Casi 500 personas responden al llamado de entrar en plena comunión con la Iglesia Católica en la Arquidiócesis de Baltimore April 14, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: En Español Omosigho Osian fue bautizada en la Iglesia Católica en su Nigeria natal. Recibió su primera Comunión en Los Ángeles, poco después de que su familia llegara como refugiada a los Estados Unidos, pero “perdió el camino” hacia la confirmación.
Church’s mission is not about numbers, but evangelizing, pope says April 14, 2022By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church in Europe and other places will, as retired Pope Benedict XVI had said, be smaller and less influential, but the church’s mission and joy is not to increase numbers but to share the Gospel, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Malta.
