Lourdes bishop says Rupnik mosaics ‘need to be removed’ from sanctuary July 3, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News The mosaics prominently featured in the Marian sanctuary in Lourdes, France, created by Father Marko Rupnik — accused of abusing dozens of women over his decades of ministry — must eventually be removed from the basilica where they are currently displayed, the bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes said.
CRS calls House version of foreign spending bill ‘inconsistent’ with U.S. ‘values, interests’ July 3, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Giving, News, U.S. Congress, World News Catholic Relief Services, the international relief and development agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S., criticized funding legislation recently passed by the U.S. House as “inconsistent with American values and interests” over cuts to humanitarian funding.
Catholic activists criticize Indiana’s move to resume using capital punishment July 3, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Catholic activists criticized a recent announcement by Indiana’s governor that his administration would seek to resume the use of the death penalty in the Hoosier state after obtaining the lethal drugs used to carry out executions.
‘Apache Christ’ icon removed from New Mexico mission, shocking Indigenous parishioners July 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for Indigenous ministry.
Pilgrimage called ‘an amazing witness of processing all across America with Jesus’ July 3, 2024By Todd Habiger OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News Hundreds of others who took part in the pilgrimage were delighted to have the opportunity to see and process with the Eucharistic Christ as pilgrims made their way through the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas June 24-29.
Profiles in Excellence: Four Catholic school graduates who excelled in academics, athletics and service July 3, 2024By Sarah Torbeck Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Many stellar students who excelled in academics, sports, community service and more were among the graduating seniors from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The Catholic review highlights a few of them.
Baltimore Catholic school graduates making headlines in pro, Olympic sports July 3, 2024By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Sports Graduates of Baltimore-area Catholic schools are at the top of their games when it comes to grabbing national attention in the professional ranks and on the pre-Olympic stage this summer.
Judge says effort to shut down Catholic ministry to migrants violates Texas’ religious freedom act July 2, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News A state judge July 2 denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to shut down Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants.
Father Gills retires after a ministry that took him around the world and around the Archdiocese of Baltimore July 2, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations, Western Vicariate Whether celebrating Mass on the hood of a Humvee in a war zone or inside a clear-glass church near Deep Creek Lake looking out to the mountains of Western Maryland, Father Thomas Gills sought to convey the same sense of the sacred.
Ex-Vatican auditor general appeals ruling: ‘they deceived the pope’ July 2, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s first-ever auditor general said false information given to the pope is what led to his wrongful termination, a claim he said will be central to his appeal scheduled to be heard before a Vatican court July 3.
Report says Germany’s Catholic Church continues to shrink; over 400,000 left in 2023 July 2, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, World News The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the church in 2023, according to statistics presented by the German bishops’ conference in Bonn on June 27.
Pope: Anointing of the sick offers strength to those seriously ill, elderly July 2, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments The sacrament of the anointing of the sick is not just for those who are nearing the end of their life, Pope Francis said.
