Church, community help one another in inland Florida county hit hard by Ian October 5, 2022By Jean Gonzalez Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Hurricane Ian destroyed a parish on Sanibel Island and ravaged portions of Fort Myers, Cape Coral, among other areas.
Vatican marks ecology saint’s feast day with film premiere, climate accords October 4, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force for the Holy See.
Pope encourages Oblates to continue serving the poor October 4, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Gospel’s message of hope to the suffering and downtrodden is sorely needed in today’s world, which is “enslaved by selfishness and full of contradictions and divisions,” Pope Francis said.
Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist October 4, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti.
Federal judge sides with Catholic school over guidance counselor’s firing October 4, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, Supreme Court, World News – A federal court in Indiana sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and one of its Catholic high schools in a lawsuit filed by a former guidance counselor who said her contract was not renewed because of her same-sex union.
Head of Miami Catholic Charities helps coordinate statewide response to Ian October 4, 2022By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News The world heard about Hurricane Ian’s devastation along coastal southwest Florida, but the Catholic Charities network of agencies also will focus on lesser known but equally stricken communities and devastated farmworker enclaves in the region.
Missionaries of hope have hearts renewed by Holy Spirit, pope says October 4, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News True missionaries of hope allow the Holy Spirit into their hearts and lives, Pope Francis told members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists.
German bishops outraged by Cardinal Koch’s Nazi comparison, demand apology October 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News The president of the German bishops’ conference demanded an apology from a Swiss cardinal at the Vatican over comments that brought up Germany’s Nazi past.
Pope tells Vatican security to stay strong in mission of service, faith October 3, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News God wants people to live their vocation in a spirit of strength, Pope Francis told the Vatican gendarme corps, the police force of the tiny city-state.
Florida continues with Hurricane Ian cleanup efforts October 3, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News As authorities in Florida continued rescue efforts, Catholic parishes and dioceses in the U.S. moved rapidly to collect aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, and U.S. President Joe Biden said it could take years to rebuild what was destroyed.
Alito kicks off project on originalism, Catholic intellectual tradition October 3, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Justice Samuel Alito told a group of law students in Washington that he is always mindful that the rulings he and his colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court issue “are not abstract discussions” and “have a real impact on the world.”
HHS urged to ‘reconsider misguided mandate’ on transgender procedures October 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News Catholic hospitals and their workers “must not be coerced by the government to violate their consciences” by being forced to perform “gender transition procedures” against their religious beliefs, said two U.S. cardinals writing in America magazine.
