British Catholics have welcomed the appointment of Father Timothy Radcliffe, their country’s best known Dominican preacher, as a cardinal, predicting it will raise their church’s profile at home and abroad.

As the Catholic Church commemorates World Mission Sunday Oct. 20, Divine Word Father Victor Roche, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, said Catholics should not only reflect on the work carried out by priests and men and women religious, but also on their own personal calling to be missionaries in their own country.

St. Mary Recycle Mission Group is operated by Kimberly Walters, a Catholic who formerly lived in the Diocese of Rochester and attended church at Rochester’s Our Lady of Victory Parish.

How miscarriage affects fathers and how that affects their relationships is an often overlooked aspect of this ministry’s developing landscape, several experts told OSV News.

As Catholics worldwide prepare to commemorate World Mission Sunday, a missionary priest in the Diocese of Rochester, New York, said his work has given him the opportunity to give back what he received in his youth in Kenya.

Roberto Navarro dreams of one day eradicating hunger, as his work involves “advocating for bills that are important to help our neediest brothers and sisters around the world,” he explained. He and his team advocate for Congress to pass (and maintain) the foreign financial aid budget.

The listening that has been part of the Synod of Bishops changes people, can change the Catholic Church and can change the world for the better, four synod members told U.S. university students in Rome.

In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 celebration of life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the singer Stevie Wonder honored his friend by singing the Our Father accompanied by a harpist, and then leading the congregation in a rousing version of “Isn’t She Lovely.”

Opening a new academic year at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lódz posed “the most important question in the church” today for him: “How to be a missionary synodal church?”

While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops’ conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., said that was not precisely what he heard.