Experts fear Cuba is preparing a harsh response to recent protests July 14, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News U.S. theologians and human rights experts on Cuba worried that any repeat of the widespread protests in Cuba on July 11 may be met with a swift, violent set of state-sponsored reactions.
Pope released from hospital, prays at Rome basilica July 14, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Ten days after undergoing intestinal surgery, Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican confirmed.
Franciscans elect Italian as 121st successor to St. Francis of Assisi July 13, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Members of the general chapter of the Order of Friars Minor elected Rome-born Father Massimo Fusarelli as the new minister general of the worldwide Franciscan order.
Pope to remain in hospital ‘a few more days,’ Vatican says July 12, 2021By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Despite initial estimates of requiring a week of inpatient care, Pope Francis will continue his recovery as a patient at Rome’s Gemelli hospital after undergoing colon surgery, the Vatican press office said.
Archbishop: Decade after independence, South Sudan ‘is bleeding slowly’ July 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A triumphant independence euphoria worldwide 10 years ago welcomed the birth of the Republic of South Sudan, the world’s newest nation.
Bishop supports apology on papal bulls that justified Indigenous oppression July 10, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Bishop Douglas J. Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century Vatican documents that justified colonization, land takeovers and oppression of Indigenous peoples.
Haitian Catholics in Miami react to assassination of president July 9, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News An apparent sense of quiet and shock in Haiti following the assassination of that country’s embattled president July 7 was mirrored in Florida’s Little Haiti neighborhood, where residents were still digesting the news later that day.
Pope will lead Angelus from hospital, Vatican says July 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Although still hospitalized, Pope Francis has resumed working and celebrated Mass for his caregivers in the small chapel that is part of the suite of rooms reserved for the popes at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican press office said July 9.
Iconic Dorothy dress has been there ‘all along’ at Catholic University July 9, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News It turns out there really is no place like home for a prized piece of movie memorabilia that came to The Catholic University of America’s drama department about 50 years ago.
Philippine bishops elect Duterte critic as new president July 9, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines elected Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Caloocan as its new president July 8. He will begin his two-year term as head of the conference Dec. 1.
Guaras truly lived ‘bond of love’ that is family life, says Florida pastor July 8, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Father Juan Sosa, pastor of the Catholic church that is close to the now-demolished condominium building in Surfside, held up a photo of 11-year-old Lucia Guara’s first Communion in 2019. He placed it on the casket holding her and her sister, Emma, 4, during the funeral Mass July 6 for the girls and their parents.
Haitian church ‘stunned’ by president’s assassination, says bishop July 8, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Bishop Alphonse Quesnel of Fort Liberté, Haiti, said the Haitian church was “stunned” by the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
