RADIO INTERVIEW: So you’re getting a new priest? June 28, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations Father Brian Nolan speaks with Father Jim Proffitt, archdiocesan director of clergy personnel, about the process of how priests are assigned to parishes. He also speaks with Father Michael DeAscanis, outgoing pastor of St. Philip Neri in Linthicum and St. Clement I in Lansdowne, about how priests prepare for and experience a change in assignment.
Catholic Media Association head Tim Walter prepares for his exit after 13 years as its head June 26, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Tim Walter, executive director of the Catholic Media Association since 2008, is preparing for his exit after heading the organization over the past 13 years.
During border visit, bishop speaks with vice president about immigration June 25, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, asked Vice President Kamala Harris June 25 to engage with the faith community as partners on a path to bring relief and a compassionate solution to immigration issues in the Americas and to “hear the voices” of those turned away at the border.
Catholic agency offers help after ‘heartbreaking’ collapse of building June 25, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Staff members with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami were on location and developing a response strategy June 24 near the stunning wreckage of a partially collapsed beachfront high-rise apartment building.
Hundreds of bodies found at former Saskatchewan residential school June 24, 2021By Mickey Conlon Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The Cowessess First Nation will put a name to each of the hundreds of bodies found at the unmarked graves on the former Marieval Indian Residential School, vows Chief Cadmus Delorme.
Movie Review: ‘Luca’ June 24, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News While it does nothing to solve the perennial problem for real-life parents that obedient children rarely have adventures, director Enrico Casarosa’s animated fantasy “Luca” (Disney+) is otherwise a winsome tale full of charm and Italian flair.
Praise Jesus Project honors a much-loved priest June 24, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News “I hope the stories we share can be an example to future priests of what a great priest is and what it means to shepherd his flock,” Puleo said.
World Day for Grandparents and Elderly: A time for small acts of kindness June 24, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Seniors, Vatican, World News Try a little tenderness. That’s basically how Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, 73, summarized Pope Francis’ vision for what older people, their grandchildren and friends should do to change the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
House GOP leaders, attorneys general urge Congress to make Hyde permanent June 24, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several other Republican leaders in the House asked their Democratic counterparts June 22 to take up a measure introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., that would make the long-standing Hyde Amendment permanent.
Self-righteous continue to disturb Christian community, pope says June 23, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Those who proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ are humble and trust in God, they do not heap conditions upon others or promote themselves as the only “keepers of the truth,” Pope Francis said.
On the road with Joseph in the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 23, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Year of St. Joseph Early summer is a perfect time for the faithful to gain a plenary indulgence by taking a spiritual retreat to one of the destinations.
Father of Amazon.com founder gives gift of $12 million to Catholic school June 23, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Miguel Bezos, the immigrant father of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has donated $12 million to a Catholic school in Delaware that housed and educated him when he arrived as an unaccompanied minor from Cuba in the early 1960s.
