By Jennifer Willems Catholic News Service PEORIA, Ill. — As Bonnie Engstrom watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born just moments before without a pulse or drawing breath, she asked for help from the person whose prayerful support she had sought throughout her pregnancy: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. After 61 […]
Archives for July 2019
Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones’ found in Vatican ossuaries
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery. Further studies on the remains will be carried out starting July […]
Catholics hold civil disobedience rally for immigrant children
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A few hundred Catholic activists, including dozens of women religious, gathered outside at the foot of the U.S. Capitol July 18 urging politicians to stop its “inhumane treatment” of immigrant children at the border and reminding people of faith to take a stronger stand against current U.S. […]
Effie Caldarola: A visit to Emmett Till’s coffin
FOR THE JOURNEY Over 60 years ago, a young African American boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after an encounter with a white woman in a country store on a dusty road on a hot, humid Southern day. Till, from Chicago, was visiting relatives and had stopped to buy bubble gum. Emmett […]
Maureen Pratt: Creative service in today’s church
LIVING WELL Gotta dance? Gotta sing? For creative artists eager to dedicate themselves to their craft, the desire to do so full time can be powerful. But soon after graduating with the Bachelor or Master of Fine Arts, or “turning pro,” the reality hits: Musicians, visual artists, dancers or writers will seldom be able to […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Our Father hears us
17TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13 Again, the Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first reading. It is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. The story has fascinated, and sobered, people for a long time. It involves catastrophic but just punishment for sinning against God. Its central […]
All hymns, all the time
‘Great Catholic Music’ makes its debut on an audio web streaming service By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholics hear hymns in church, but hardly ever on the radio. Now they can augment their weekly diet of hymnody through a new audio web streaming service called Great Catholic Music. The service launched March […]
Greg Erlandson: How far is too far for Mass?
AMID THE FRAY How far would you drive for Mass? I don’t know if anyone has ever done a study of such a pedestrian topic, but it is a question that will become increasingly relevant. Once upon a time, driving farther than your local parish was simply a matter of choice. For example, when I […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May first cousins marry?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Are first cousins allowed to be married in the church? I have in mind a couple I know whose fathers are brothers. They hadn’t known each other as children but met later at a family reunion and then fell in love. They were married in a civil court, which is allowed in […]
Photos: Feast of our patroness of peace
Above, Bishop Larry Silva blesses with incense the statue of Our Lady of Peace outside the cathedral basilica that bears her name July 9 after a Mass inside the church celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Peace. Mary, under the title of Our Lady of Peace, is the patroness of the Diocese of Honolulu. […]
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