Amid Christmas and Jubilee preparations, prepare your hearts, pope says December 9, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News With the city of Rome presenting a gauntlet of major roadworks and construction projects ahead of the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis used the disruptions as an opportunity to encourage people to do some spiritual renovation before the jubilee.
Patient diplomacy, cooperation hold hope for suffering world, pope says December 9, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Climate change, war, immigration and other global challenges can only be resolved with the input and cooperation of the entire global community, Pope Francis told a group of new ambassadors to the Holy See.
Radio Interview: The Jubilee Year of Hope December 9, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty sat down with Marilyn Santos, associate director of Evangelization and Catechesis for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who will be coordinating resources for dioceses and parishes to use to help celebrate the jubilee. Gunty also talks with Religious Sister of Mercy Maria Juan Anderson, who is coordinator of the U.S. Bishops’ Office for Visitors to the Vatican in Rome.
Deacon Rondall Howard ready for ordination to priesthood December 9, 2024By Mary Clifford Morrell Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Archbishop William E. Lori will ordain Deacon Rondall Howard to the priesthood Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. at St. Ignatius in Ijamsville.
Pilgrims walk miles to pay homage to St. Francis Xavier in a once-in-a-decade exposition of relics December 9, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The saint’s relics have been on display for 45 days since Nov. 21, an event happening once a decade since 1964.
With inaugural Mass, Notre Dame reveals ‘the Lord does not abandon his own’ December 8, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Chilling rain and the “City of Lights” completely locked down due to high profile guests did not stop the crowds from arriving as close to Notre Dame Cathedral as possible for its inaugural Mass celebrated Dec. 8.
With Assad’s fall, Syria’s papal nuncio prays for nation’s reconciliation, new prosperity December 8, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News The apostolic nuncio to Syria says he hopes the war-torn nation will “move toward reconciliation” and at least “some prosperity” under democratic rule, following former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster in a lightning offensive by rebel groups.
‘Long live Notre Dame de Paris!’ Jubilation as iconic Catholic cathedral reopens December 7, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The solemn reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral put Paris in the center of the Catholic world on the evening of Dec. 7 as the archbishop of France’s capital struck the magnificent door with his pastoral staff, marking the moment of the iconic Catholic church’s rebirth.
Jesuit Father McAndrews recalled as ‘brilliant’ educator at Loyola Blakefield December 7, 2024By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Schools Father McAndrews, who died Nov. 23 at age 96, is largely credited with putting the all-boys school on a path during his presidency (1979-98) to where it now is honored routinely as one of the best private educational institutions in Maryland.
Christmas consistory: Big crowds, festive air for well-wishers of new cardinals December 7, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Moments after Pope Francis placed red hats on the heads of 21 new cardinals, the newest members of the College of Cardinal, many far from their places of ministry, were united with friends, family and their flock to celebrate.
New cardinals from 17 nations are called to build church unity, pope says December 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the center of one’s life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations.
Catholic college’s grand ‘botafumeiro,’ inspired by Spain, honors Christ the King December 7, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News It was the feast of Christ the King — Sunday, Nov. 24 — and excited yet hushed murmurs of expectation rippled through the worshippers assembled for vespers at Christendom College’s Christ the King Chapel in Front Royal.
