Parishes enter ‘honest conversations’ on race June 15, 2022By Mary K. Tilghman Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice In churches across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, parishioners are gathering to search for ways to come to grips with how racism affects society and one another.
Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services honored for women’s leadership June 15, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities of Baltimore are two of 48 companies that will be honored at an event hosted by the Executive Alliance, which promotes women leadership in Maryland.
Father Himes, popular Boston College theologian and author, dies at 75 June 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News Father Michael J. Himes, who retired last year after nearly three decades on the faculty of Jesuit-run Boston College, died June 10 at 75. No cause of death was given.
The spiritual and the human: Chaplains help Ukrainian soldiers with both June 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News KYIV, Ukraine (CNS) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on and joint funerals are held for the soldiers who die, Catholic military chaplains say they still see faith, hope and humanity in the soldiers with whom they minister. “It is a very special vocation to be a man of God among those who are […]
Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation June 15, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Saying “superficial” marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage, Pope Francis endorsed suggestions for a yearlong “marriage catechumenate” drafted by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.
Discarding elderly a ‘betrayal’ of humanity, pope says June 15, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Seniors, Vatican, World News People have a responsibility to care for the elderly and cherish their wisdom rather than regard them as a burden on society, Pope Francis said.
Service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral remembers victims of war in Ukraine June 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News New York Ukrainian Catholics and other worshippers found community and solace June 11 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral where Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, led an evening memorial prayer service for the victims of the war in Ukraine.
USCCB plans to release more resources on abuse prevention, child protection June 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News The bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, invited Catholics June 13 “to pray for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, their families and all those who accompany survivors in the path toward healing, that they experience Christ’s profound love for them and God’s healing grace.”
Superpowers at war add to the world’s poor, pope says in message June 14, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The war in Ukraine is now one of several regional wars that “for years have taken a heavy toll of death and destruction,” the pope said in the message dated June 13, the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of the poor.
Speaker at Washington anti-gun rally says nation must ‘replace the hate’ June 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The son of Ruth E. Whitfield, the oldest victim of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, told a rally in Washington June 11 that the nation needs to “lower” its weapons and “replace the hate.”
Hemispheric summit ends with immigration deal among countries June 14, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Twenty countries from the Americas, including the United States, signed a declaration June 10, the last day of the troubled Summit of the Americas, committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.”
Real-life experience: Pastoral formation helps seminarians learn to live the ministry of a priest June 14, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Pastoral formation is one of the four core disciplines of a seminarians’ education along with human, intellectual and spiritual formation.