By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The shooting of police officers July 7 near the end of a demonstration in Dallas to protest fatal shootings by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier in the week “calls us to a moment of national reflection,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “To […]
Pope questions validity of many marriages today
He says too many couples do not understand bond is for life By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Because most people today do not understand that sacramental marriage really is a bond that binds them to each other for life, many marriages today can be considered invalid, Pope Francis said. Raising a point […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Why is my parish run as a dictatorship?
QUESTION CORNER Q: Could you explain to me why Catholic parishes are run as dictatorships and are not democratic? Priests who act as dictators are driving young people to go to non-Catholic services or to quit altogether. Priests are 9-to-5 employees who do not earn their salary; if they were in the real world, many […]
The gold curse
Illegal mining in Ghana impairs church plans for a clinic and nursing college, threatens lives, poisons land By Melanie Lidman Catholic News Service HIA, Ghana — Bishop John Yaw Afoakwah of Obuasi is furious. In his celebratory white cassock, he picks his way carefully through shoulder-high mounds of dirt and deep puddles to approach the […]
Pope at Easter: Reconcile with God, resurrect hope
VATICAN CITY — Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God’s mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world).
Murdered priest called ‘martyr of truth’
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.”
Father William J. Byron SJ: What is God like?
There are two abiding and important religious questions, both significant but one more important than the other, that we tend to confuse in their order of importance. The first is, “What is God like?”
With Mother Angelica ‘God was full of surprises’
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — With Mother Angelica having been essentially bedridden for 15 years following a series of strokes in 2001, staff at the Eternal Word Television Network and members of her order, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, had plenty of time to plan and prepare for her funeral.
Bishop believes kidnapped Salesian still alive
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The bishop who leads the apostolic vicariate that includes Yemen said he has “strong indications” that Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil “is still alive in the hands of his kidnappers.” Bishop Paul Hinder, head of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, told Catholic News Service March 28, […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: If a priest is present, shouldn’t he distribute Communion?
Q: During Lent, more people than usual attend daily Mass in our parish. We have two assigned priests. For some reason, when the pastor celebrates Mass, the associate doesn’t concelebrate but sits in a pew with the congregation. Then, when it is time for holy Communion, a lay minister helps the pastor distribute, and the associate walks up in the regular Communion line.
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