‘Forgive me, father’: Vatican seminar looks at why people avoid confession October 21, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Every year, for more than three decades, the Vatican tribunal dealing with matters of conscience has offered a course to help priests in their “ministry of mercy” as confessors.
In Ukraine, Basilian sisters pitch in and prepare for war’s consequences October 21, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Sister Yeronima Rybakova, principal of St. Basil the Great Catholic School, which the order operates near the busy city center, said much changed in their community after Feb. 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
Choral project explores how major religions welcome immigrants, refugees October 21, 2022By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News After creating an interfaith choir to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Vatican in 2018, the Together in Hope Project choir has a new choral project that explores major faiths’ traditions of welcoming the refugee, immigrant and outcast.
Cardinal Gregory stresses need for believers to fight against racism October 20, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News atholics, and all people of faith, must engage in the “critically important work” of fighting injustice, racism and other societal ills that prevent people from living in peace, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said in an Oct. 13 address at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
Pope asks missionaries to help laity take responsibility for church October 20, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A key part of fostering “the communion, participation and missionary commitment of all the baptized,” a key goal of the current synodal process, is recognizing the responsibility lay Catholics share for the future of the church and helping them recognize it, too, Pope Francis told members of the Mariannhill Missionaries.
Bishop in South Sudan appeals for food amid continued atrocities October 20, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News The bishop of a diocese in South Sudan is appealing for food as his region in the county’s south has been hit by rebel atrocities.
‘Can’t not do it,’ says Sister Prejean of her fight to end death penalty October 20, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, shows no signs of slowing down in her long-standing fight to end the death penalty.
Archbishop renews call for dialogue on ridding world of nuclear weapons October 20, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The world still has not learned “the essential lesson” of the Cuban Missile Crisis that “the only way to eliminate the nuclear danger is through careful, universal, verifiable steps to eliminate nuclear weapons,” said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M.
Study of priests shows distrust of bishops, fear of false abuse accusations October 19, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News The study “Well-being, Trust and Policy in a Time of Crisis” by The Catholic Project, written by Brandon Vaidyanathan, Christopher Jacobi and Chelsea Rae Kelly, of The Catholic University of America, paints a portrait of a majority of priests who feel abandoned by the men they are supposed to trust at the helm of their dioceses.
Pope hails new Catholic-Jewish study center in Poland October 19, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis expressed his hope that a new center for Catholic-Jewish relations in Poland will “foster appreciation of the common heritage, not only of the two religions, but also of the two peoples.”
Long-awaited construction project kicks off at St. Joan of Arc October 19, 2022By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools A project that’s been years in the making began to come to life Oct. 19 when Archbishop William E. Lori and other dignitaries broke ground on a $6.5 million parish life center and chapel for St. Joan of Arc Parish and School in Harford County.
Parishioners give input on ‘Seek the City’ initiative October 19, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Addressing more than 150 people who gathered Oct. 17 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore for the first of 18 prayerful community discussions planned for the next two years, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s urban vicar said the church can’t maintain the status quo and expect any change for the better.
