Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital November 22, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ.
Wisconsin parishes pray for victims after SUV plows through parade crowd November 22, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Church leaders and parishes offered prayers for the five people who died and dozens more who were injured, including a Catholic priest, church parishioners and Catholic school students, when an SUV plowed through spectators watching a Christmas parade.
Polish priest killed by Nazis takes step closer to sainthood November 22, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work.
Giving Tuesday is chance to help November 21, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Local News, News The archdiocese will participate for the first time in the international annual Giving Tuesday Nov. 30, raising funds for parishes through a digital platform titled #GiveCatholicAOB in collaboration with GiveCentral.
In sunrise walk, bishops, survivors seek day of prayer to end sex abuse November 18, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 The sun barely had peaked over the horizon, ending the darkness and bringing light into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, where two U.S. cardinals, six bishops and prominent leaders of various faiths clasped hands with a group of about 20 men and women Nov. 18, praying for an end to the “evil” that brought them together.
Catholic leaders applaud decision to commute Julius Jones’ death sentence November 18, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Catholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City’s archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency — just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
U.S. bishops approve document on Eucharist and investing guidelines in Baltimore meeting November 17, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021 “The document is meant to be a resource,” Archbishop Lori said. “It’s meant to emphasize points of eucharistic doctrine and practice that may have been neglected over time – that needs, in our times, fresh emphasis.”
Bishops affirm dioceses’ sainthood causes for three U.S. laypeople November 17, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News The U.S. bishops agreed Nov. 17 that the sainthood causes for three laypeople from the United States should be advanced by their respective dioceses.
U.S. bishops approve Communion statement that aims to ‘retrieve and revive’ understanding November 17, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News The U.S. bishops approved their statement on the Eucharist with 222 “yes” votes Nov. 17, the second of two days of public sessions during their Nov. 15-18 fall general assembly.
Movie Review: ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ November 17, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews This adaptation of a series of children’s books by Norman Bridwell, the first of which was published in 1963, is silly but mostly harmless.
Bishops agree to begin review of charter earlier than planned November 17, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News On Nov. 17, the second of two days of public sessions during their fall general assembly Nov. 15-18 in Baltimore, the bishops voted to begin the process of updating the charter in 2022 rather than in 2025. The vote was 230 bishops in favor of the plan and five bishops against it.
Physician-assisted suicide expected to be an issue in Maryland General Assembly November 17, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland General Assembly, News, Respect Life “Our responsibility as Catholics is to be a voice for the voiceless, the most vulnerable and those at the periphery of society,” Kraska said. “Those most likely to be harmed by this dangerous legislation are racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, the elderly and those with disabilities.”
