Pope clarifies rules limiting celebration of pre-Vatican II Mass February 22, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Diocesan bishops must have Vatican authorization to allow the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass in a parish church, to establish a new “personal parish” for devotees of the old Mass or to allow its celebration by a priest ordained after July 2021 when Pope Francis issued rules restricting the celebration, he said.
New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent January 31, 2023By Gina Christian Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.
Mission begins by meeting Jesus in the Scriptures and Eucharist, pope says January 27, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Having come to know Jesus through the Scriptures and in the Eucharist, Catholics are called to share with others the hope and joy that come from faith and that endure even when life gets difficult, Pope Francis said.
God’s word, mercy must be shared with everyone, pope says January 23, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments “Jesus ‘reaches out’ to tell us that God’s mercy is for everyone,” Pope Francis said in his homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 22, the church’s celebration of Sunday of the Word of God.
Long homilies are ‘a disaster,’ keep it under 10 minutes, pope says January 23, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Lengthy, abstract homilies are “a disaster,” so preaching should be limited to 10 minutes, Pope Francis said.
To improve liturgy, involve the people, pope says January 20, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Religious celebrations must foster the “fruitful participation of the people of God” and not just of the clergy, Pope Francis said.
Pope to confer ministries of lector, catechist at Mass Jan. 22 January 17, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Pope Francis will celebrate the fourth annual Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 22 and, like he did last year, will confer the ministries of lector and catechist on several lay people, according to the Dicastery for Evangelization.
What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer January 13, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Each year, some 3 million pilgrims — many with terminal medical conditions — visit the shrine in southwestern France, site of 18 Marian apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous, who was a young teenager in poverty and could neither read nor write at the time.
Pope baptizes babies, urges parents to teach them to pray January 9, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments – Telling parents and godparents to teach their little ones to pray from the time they are small, Pope Francis baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel as their older brothers and sisters looked on — or got away and ran around.
For converts to Catholicism, RCIA is now ‘OCIA’: What’s behind name change? December 3, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Faith Formation, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops changed the name of one of the best-known acronyms in the church, reorienting the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) into the new Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA).
Eucharistic revival has ‘incredible momentum,’ bishop says November 17, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments The U.S. bishops’ three-year eucharistic revival, which will culminate in a National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis in 2024, is in full swing, according to Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn.
Bishops approve new Mass texts for St. Paul VI, Our Lady of Loreto November 16, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Worship & Sacraments The U.S. bishops took on the task during their fall general meeting in Baltimore of considering proposed Mass texts for the feasts of Our Lady of Loreto and the recently canonized St. Paul VI.
