Number of Baltimore seminarians hits four-decade high October 6, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Ranging in age from 18 to their mid-40s, the total number of those preparing to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore stands at 59 – a high not seen in four decades.
USCCB, military archdiocese oppose VA’s proposed abortion services rule October 6, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archdiocese for the Military Services have filed a joint statement objecting to a rule proposed by the Biden administration to allow abortions to be performed on demand in health programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Parish, Catholic Charities supply water, food to Florida migrants after Ian October 6, 2022By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News Father Patrick O’Connor said his immigrant community, composed mostly of Mexican and Central American laborers, is most in need simply of food and water donations after Hurricane Ian, as the supply chain situation hasn’t been great.
Archbishop Lori calls for ‘radical solidarity’ with pregnant women October 5, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee called for a “radical solidarity” with pregnant women to protect and support them and their unborn child.
True discernment requires knowing oneself, pope says October 5, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News During his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 5, the pope said that knowing oneself requires “patient soul-searching” and the awareness of one’s “way of acting, of the feelings that dwell within us.”
Swiss cardinal apologizes for Nazi reference in critique of Synodal Path October 5, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News In a meeting with the president of the German bishops’ conference, Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were doing something similar to what a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis did in the 1930s.
CRS launches campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change October 5, 2022By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services is kicking off a campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change and foster greater awareness of how climate change affects vulnerable communities.
Mass seeks saint’s protection, intercession for nation’s Sea Services October 5, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations At a special Mass, which was broadcast live on EWTN, members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and Public Health Service joined others in prayer to thank St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for her protection and to ask for her continued intercession for all Sea Services personnel and their families back home.
Church, community help one another in inland Florida county hit hard by Ian October 5, 2022By Jean Gonzalez Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Hurricane Ian destroyed a parish on Sanibel Island and ravaged portions of Fort Myers, Cape Coral, among other areas.
Vatican marks ecology saint’s feast day with film premiere, climate accords October 4, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force for the Holy See.
Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist October 4, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti.
Federal judge sides with Catholic school over guidance counselor’s firing October 4, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, Supreme Court, World News – A federal court in Indiana sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and one of its Catholic high schools in a lawsuit filed by a former guidance counselor who said her contract was not renewed because of her same-sex union.
