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Most U.S. dioceses will take up an annual collection Dec. 9-10 to help approximately 24,000 elderly religious sisters, brothers and religious order priests pay for retirement necessities, including health care.
"Addressing the needs of our aging religious demands substantial financial commitment," said John
Proposals from the Synod on Synodality can be judged by whether they call men and women to holiness, as the church does more work "to ensure a genuinely Catholic understanding of synodality, inclusion and discernment," Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has written.
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Archbishop Thompson spoke to teens about this year’s NCYC theme “Fully Alive” in a prayer service at the beginning of the opening session -- after the teens had settled down from a rousing concert by Christian rock band for KING + COUNTRY.
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The material, cultural and spiritual poverties that exist in the world are a "scandal" that Christians are called to address by putting their God-given capacity for charity and love into action, Pope Francis said.
The poor, whether "the oppressed, fatigued, marginalized, victims of
A Catholic pilgrimage, especially a pilgrimage to Marian shrines, should help people grow in their commitment to be missionary disciples, Pope Francis said.Meeting pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Ozamiz, Philippines, Nov. 17, the pope said their visits to shrines in Europe dedicated
The abbot president of the Benedictines' Solesmes Congregation in France came to Vermont to give the abbatial blessing to the first abbess of the newly designated Immaculate Heart of Mary Abbey in Westfield.
More than 500 people attended the blessing Nov. 11 at
It seemed like one of Antonio Gaudí's dreams come true.
On Nov. 12, the papal nuncio to Spain, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, blessed the towers of the Evangelists of the famous Sagrada Familía basilica in Barcelona. Gaudí, a legendary Catalan architect, started working on
The U.S. bishops voted almost unanimously (with two "no" votes) Nov. 15 to support of a request by the the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales that Pope Francis name St. John Henry Newman, the 19th-century British cardinal, a doctor of
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, urged U.S. Catholics to support the "urgent work" of the U.S. church's domestic anti-poverty program by giving to the upcoming CCHD national collection.
"CCHD helps countless people in our
The U.S. bishops Nov. 14 elected Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City as secretary-elect of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He won with 187 votes over his challenger, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Oregon, who received 55 votes.
Archbishop Coakley