THE GLOBAL FAMILY One of my routines in the early pandemic lockdown was to shop at a big-box retailer at 6 a.m. Along with food, a key purchase was fabric and supplies that allowed me to make face masks with my very rudimentary sewing skills. Over the weeks, I struck up a rapport with the […]
Effie Caldarola: Don’t bottle up emotions
FOR THE JOURNEY Have you had a good cry lately? I have. I saw a Twitter post about a cheerful old fellow in an English care facility who slept with his late wife’s photo every night. So, a thoughtful staff member had a photo company create a pillow for him, one side of which displayed […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: May we pray to Mother Angelica? Are there sins only the pope can pardon?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I have always had great admiration for Mother Angelica. Would it be wrong of me to talk to her and ask her prayers if she has not yet been declared “blessed” by the church? (Phoenix) A: Mother Angelica died in 2016 at the age of 92. In 1981, she founded the Eternal […]
Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in United States
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. It would represent the culmination of an effort begun informally in 1997, […]
Churches in Europe reopening with restrictions to avoid contagion
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME — With a number of countries in Europe slowly easing restrictions as part of a long-term strategy for containing the spread of the coronavirus, churches, too, are seeing changes in what is or will be allowed. Where possible, for example, in Italy, protocols were the result of government […]
Prominent Catholics among those who suffered under Nazis
75TH ANNIVERSARY OF GERMAN SURRENDER By Gunther Simmermacher Catholic News Service When Germany surrendered to Allied Forces May 7, 1945, Catholics saw a nation and their church shattered. Adolf Hitler’s destructive reign had turned many Germans into brutes or victims of the Nazis’ crazed megalomania. The Catholic Church suffered tremendously, even if some of its […]
In new biography, Pope Benedict says world threatened by humanism
By Catholic News Service MUNICH — In a newly published biography, Retired Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church is threatened by a “worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanist ideologies.” He cited same-sex marriage, abortion and the “creation of humans in the laboratory” as examples. The retired pope, 93, said: “Modern society is in the process […]
COVID-19 takes toll on New York Maryknoll motherhouse
The religious community in Ossining is the residence of retired Hawaii missioners By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service CLEVELAND — The Maryknoll religious community in Ossining, New York, has been hit hard by COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. At least one priest and three women religious have died of the illness during the […]
Creation is sacred gift deserving respect, Francis says on Earth Day
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Humanity has failed to take care of the earth and its inhabitants, sinning against God and his gift of creation, Pope Francis said. Celebrating Earth Day, which fell during the “Easter season of renewal, let us pledge to love and esteem the beautiful gift of the […]
Blessing Southern California with a hilltop benediction
By Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell of Los Angeles climbed a high summit in the San Gabriel Valley April 23 to bless the most populous counties of Southern California and beyond during this pandemic. Asked by Terry Barber, founder and president of Virgin Most Powerful Radio, why he was […]
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