10 years after Islamic State group’s bloody rampage, Iraq’s displaced Christians still struggle June 9, 2024By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: News, World News For Iraqi Catholics, it’s a date they will never forget. The takeover of Mosul by militants of the Islamic State group 10 years ago began their bloody and destructive rampage over the weeks that followed through the country’s ancestral heartland which Christians called home for the past 16 centuries.
Debt relief: Biblical jubilee concern is focus of Holy Year 2025, too June 8, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Proclaiming the Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis appealed to the world’s wealthiest nations to “acknowledge the gravity of so many of their past decisions and determine to forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them.”
GIVEN forum equips young women to pursue their unique callings June 8, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Over 300 Catholic women from all walks of life will gather in Washington from June 8 to 12 to participate in the GIVEN Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program and the Catholic Women’s Leadership Forum. It will be the fifth GIVEN forum since the group’s founding; the previous forums were held in 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 and 2022.
‘He’s truly there:’ Hundreds of pilgrims process with Eucharist through Baltimore streets June 7, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News “Even as beautiful as this place is, even as beautiful as any church or altar or tabernacle or sacred vessel, you were created to hold God and to be the vessel that carries him into the world,” Bishop Lewandowski said, “so that the world might know his loving presence, his grace, his goodness, his mercy and his salvation.”
On historic D-Day anniversary, Catholic veteran says faith has always helped him in ‘tight corner’ June 7, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Western heads of state and government gathered in northern France to mark 80 years since the monumental D-Day invasion that helped secure victory in World War II, one veteran, now age 100, had special memories to share.
Eucharistic pilgrims inspired by Bread of Life – and food truck fare June 7, 2024By Katie V. Jones Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News As a stop on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, the cathedral hosted vespers and eucharistic preaching by Father Patalinghug, who switched from his robes to an apron to work in his Grace and Grub Food Truck as soon as the liturgy ended.
Our Lady of Pompei has 100-year history of serving immigrant communities June 7, 2024By Kurt Jensen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2024 During a special June 2 Mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first Mass inside the completed church, Archbishop William E. Lori highlighted the faith community’s long history of welcoming others and its commitment to the Eucharist.
Amid prayers for peace, Vatican-Israeli tensions were on display June 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s massive military response in Gaza have led to strong papal pleas for peace but also to Vatican-Israeli diplomatic tensions.
Diocesan hermit-theologian warned bishop ‘transgender hermit’ proposal would ‘misuse’ church law June 7, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News A Kentucky bishop’s decision to endorse a hermit who publicly identified as transgender has raised a number of questions and concerns — particularly from another diocesan hermit and theologian, who had counseled the bishop in writing nearly two years before that approving the individual as a hermit would “misuse” canon law governing that vocation, and set a precedent that could endanger the future of eremitical life itself.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ‘is so radical and so crazy, and I’m glad,’ pilgrim says June 7, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News On their third week of the pilgrimage, however, the perpetual pilgrims — young adults traveling the full lengths of the four National Eucharistic Pilgrimage routes with the Eucharist — reported meeting enthusiasm at every stop since setting out from points in California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Texas May 18-19.
Pope thanks priests for faithful, generous dedication to their flock June 7, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News While Pope Francis often raises warnings against “clericalism” and “spiritual worldliness” in the priesthood, he expressed his deep gratitude and affection for priests and deacons around the world for what he called their generous and faith-filled dedication to their communities.
Ex-Vatican employee arrested for trying to sell Bernini manuscript June 7, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A former employee of St. Peter’s Basilica is in Vatican custody after allegedly being caught in a Vatican-orchestrated sting operation involving the sale of a manuscript by Italian baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
