Decline in vocations is a call to be humble, pope tells Jesuits December 16, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News The decrease of vocations to religious life, including in the Society of Jesus, is a lesson in humility and a reminder that a calling to religious life depends on God, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Greece.
Tom Quigley, longtime foreign policy adviser to U.S. bishops, dies at 91 December 16, 2021By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News Thomas J. Quigley, who worked for 45 years in service to the U.S. bishops, mostly in the realm of foreign policy, died Dec. 11 at age 91.
Dialogue group calls for Catholic recognition of Anglican ordinations December 16, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News A group of Catholic and Anglican theologians has publicly called on the Vatican to review and overturn a papal document from 1896 that declared Anglican ordinations “absolutely null and utterly void.”
Emotions run high in Kentucky diocese as tornado recovery gets underway December 15, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Early in the morning Dec. 11, following a tornado warning for Daviess County the night before, Owensboro Bishop William F. Medley found that his cellphone service was down — and that Gov. Andy Beshear had made an announcement about lives lost in a sudden tragedy.
Pope establishes ‘Fratelli Tutti’ Foundation December 15, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis established a new Vatican foundation that will promote initiatives based on the principles set out in his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship.”
Court denies religious exemption on vaccine for N.Y. health care workers December 14, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests Dec. 13 from New York health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its health care employees.
Vatican releases text for installing catechists, explains ministry December 13, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholic men and women formally installed in the new ministry of catechists are not simply religious education teachers but are engaged in “the proclamation and transmission of the faith, carrying out this role in collaboration with the ordained ministers and under their guidance,” said a letter accompanying the Latin text of the Rite of Institution of Catechists.
Pope invites Catholics to join Caritas campaign to care for poor, creation December 13, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis encouraged people to take part in a new global campaign launched by Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for national Catholic charities.
Mourning, prayer and a resolve to rebuild follow devastating tornadoes December 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Mourning, prayer and a resolve to rebuild shattered lives, homes and businesses in Mayfield followed one of the most powerful twisters in U.S. history that leveled the city of 10,000 in western Kentucky overnight Dec. 10.
Christmas is time for sharing, not commercialism, pope says December 10, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Christmas tree and Nativity crèche should evoke the joy and the peace of God’s love and not the selfish indulgence of consumerism and indifference, Pope Francis said.
Report IDs five European nations with increasing anti-Christian violence December 9, 2021By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said.
Seafarers’ welfare, dignity need protection, Vatican foreign minister says December 9, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Vulnerable to abuse and hardship, seafarers’ dignity and welfare must be protected around the world, the Vatican foreign minister said.
