By listening to Holy Spirit, synod can be process of healing, pope says October 11, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2023.
U.S. nuncio says he’ll stay, helps prepare for synod, Biden-pope meeting October 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the 75-year-old apostolic nuncio to the United States, said when he met Pope Francis at the Vatican Sept. 6, the pope asked him to remain in his post instead of retiring.
Pope warns that synod could be ‘elitist’ exercise unless all have a voice October 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While a Synod of Bishops is not a parliament and its preparatory process is not “an opinion poll,” Pope Francis insisted that involving as many people as possible in the process and prayerfully listening to all of them is the only way to recognize the call of the Holy Spirit.
Pope meets Pelosi; both speak at legislators’ pre-COP26 meeting October 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican Oct. 9 with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Rome to speak at a meeting of legislators from around the world in preparation for the U.N. climate summit.
Indiana Catholic, a former U.S. senator, is Vatican ambassador nominee October 9, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News President Joe Biden will nominate Catholic lawyer Joseph Donnelly of Indiana, a former member of the U.S. House and Senate, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Some see growing trend in women choosing vocation as consecrated virgins October 8, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News There are now seven consecrated virgins in the Detroit Archdiocese, who are part of a worldwide movement of women choosing to live a radical, ancient vocation as brides of Christ in the world.
Pope, religious leaders plead for peace, compassion, care for the earth October 8, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Standing in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis called on members of all the world’s religions to be courageous enough to set aside self-centeredness and instead live with true and active compassion for the victims of war and poverty and for the earth.
Sister Elizabeth Ann Tonroe, D.C., former principal of several schools, dies at 94 October 7, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass was offered Oct. 1 for Daughter of Charity Sister Elizabeth Ann Tonroe at the Basilica of St. Elizabeth Seton in Emmitsburg. Sister Elizabeth Ann, a former teacher and principal of several schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Sept. 27. She was 94.
Aberdeen STEM maven who died suddenly at 52 inspired family, peers, students October 7, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Tokarski loved butterflies, and was the force of nature behind the Monarch Butterfly Garden at St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen, where kids learn about botany, entomology and geography.
Pope to name St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church October 7, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Pope Francis said he intends to declare as a doctor of the church St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the second-century theologian known for his defense of orthodoxy amid the rise of gnostic sects.
Admiral: By her prayers, example, Mother Seton understood the sea services October 7, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News For retired U.S. Navy Adm. William J. Fallon, the annual Pilgrimage for the Sea Services Mass at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg is not just a labor of love for himself.
Black Catholic administrators call out treatment of Haitians at border October 7, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News A group of Black Catholic administrators is calling on “Catholic leaders to do something, to say something” about undertones of racism they say is playing out in the treatment of Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border.
