COVID-19 bill OK’d without Hyde language to prevent funding of abortion March 2, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News On the House floor ahead of the vote — which came at 2 in the morning (EST) — Rep. Chris Smith, N.J., criticized Pelosi and the House Rules Committee for refusing to allow a vote on an amendment to add language to the bill “to ensure that taxpayers aren’t forced to subsidize abortion,” as provided by the long-standing Hyde Amendment.
Gomez: U.S. bishops’ working group set up last November completes work March 2, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A special working group of the U.S. bishops formed last November to deal with conflicts that could arise between the policies of President Joe Biden, a Catholic, and church teaching has completed its work, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a March 1 memo to all the U.S. bishops.
In interview, pope says he will remain in Rome until death March 1, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he believes he will die in Rome, either in office or retired, and will not be buried in his native Argentina.
Health care chaplains in Baltimore and beyond embrace self-care in COVID-19 work February 26, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Video, World News “This suffering on a daily basis takes an emotional toll, ” said Sandra Michocki, a chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. “In order for it not to swallow us,” she said, chaplains have to remember that God is always with them and “when we’re weary or we’re tired, we show up anyway; that’s all we can do.”
Religious order withdraws request to transfer founder’s remains to U.S. February 26, 2021By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News A religious order has withdrawn its request to exhume its founder and transfer some of her remains from England to Philadelphia.
Heroes of love: New pathway open for future saints February 25, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The new pathway to canonization puts the focus on the nature of the candidate’s death — that it was a free and willing offer of one’s Christian life and a heroic acceptance, out of love, of a certain and early death.
Bishops: If passed, Equality Act will ‘discriminate against people of faith February 25, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News If the House of Representatives passes the Equality Act, its mandates will “discriminate against people of faith” by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s sports, “and sex-specific facilities,” said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.
Cardinal prays on CNN program marking 500,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. February 23, 2021By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News During a Feb. 22 evening program on CNN, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a prayer for those who have died from COVID-19 asking God to “grant enteral peace to all our sisters and brothers lost to this disease.”
Not your grandfather’s — or father’s — Superman February 23, 2021By Joseph McAleer Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News Superman, in the guise of Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin), is now married to Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) and they have twin sons, Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin).
Passionist priest, relative of English princes, takes step closer to sainthood February 22, 2021By Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News A priest related to Princes William and Harry took a major step closer to sainthood when Pope Francis declared him venerable.
Pope, Holocaust survivor talk about the importance of remembering February 22, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A month after reading an interview in the Vatican newspaper with Edith Bruck, an author and Holocaust survivor, Pope Francis decided to pay her a visit at her home in the center of Rome.
Cardinals Sarah, Comastri retire from Vatican posts February 22, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis accepted the resignations of 75-year-old Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, and 77-year-old Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar for Vatican City State.
