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By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — Although Catholic leaders and state Catholic conferences had pushed for the defeat of ballot measures protecting legal abortion and urged voters to pass measures restricting abortions, state voters ultimately went the other way Nov. 8. Voters in California, Vermont and Michigan approved abortion protections, while Kentucky and Montana voters rejected abortion restrictions. These […]
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Parishes
By Kevin Schweers
Seventy-seven years ago, 16 Black Catholics petitioned Richmond Bishop Peter L. Ireton for permission to establish a church where they could freely worship in undeveloped Arlington County. Those Catholics exhibited faith at least the size of the mustard seed that Jesus likened to the kingdom of heaven in St. Matthew’s Gospel, saying, “It is the […]
Columns
By Lucia A. Silecchia
On Veterans Day a number of years ago, a cafe chain offered a free coffee drink to any veteran who visited on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. My Dad, a 1950’s Army veteran, went to claim this gracious token of appreciation. He came home, coffee in hand, but a bit dejected because the […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — Father Guillermo Treviño wasn’t sure what to expect when Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula assigned him in 2018 to St. Joseph Parish in rural West Liberty, Iowa, population 3,808. The young priest, then 32 and three years ordained, had lived in the Quad Cities area of the state along the Illinois border. Living a […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — A dove in flight lays a blanket over a homeless person in a new sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. Pope Francis blessed the statue, titled Sheltering, as Schmalz looked on Nov. 9 with about 60 representatives of the Vincentian religious orders and lay communities that are using the statue in conjunction […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — For there to be peace, people need to expand their horizons, engage in dialogue and work with each other in a way that sets aside selfishness and ambition, Pope Francis said. Reflecting on his recent visit to Bahrain during his weekly general audience Nov. 9, the pope said, “I sensed this need […]
Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — Russia’s ambassador to the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis helped facilitate recent prisoner exchanges with Ukraine and said the Vatican is ready to act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. The Italian news agency Askanews reported the ambassador, Aleksandr Avdeyev, said the exchanges of prisoners occur in accordance with the lists of […]
National
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A proposed merger between the Diocese of Steubenville and the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, will undergo further discussions on the diocesan level after a survey of parishioners showed “disappointment and even fear” over the proposal, said Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton. He made the comments in a Nov. 7 letter to the […]
Columns
By Effie Caldarola
My great-grandfather, a refugee from the devastating famine in Ireland, came to Nebraska to farm. Generations later, I grew up on that farm. I have roots — literal and figurative — in the land he purchased, a very small acreage of which I still own. These roots help me to identify with the farming images […]
Local
By Kevin Schweers
A Haitian slave who became a wealthy New York City hairdresser and Catholic philanthropist. The foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a congregation of African American religious women, nearly 200 years ago. The first U.S. Catholic priest known to be Black. These and other candidates for sainthood, six in total, were remembered fondly by […]
