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By Catholic News Service
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Ukrainians “have made the Bible come alive for the world,” Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, told graduates of the University of Notre Dame May 15. “David withstands Goliath, the Way of the Cross has stations in Bucha and Borodianka, Mariupol and Sumy, Jesus suffers with […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
SEOUL, South Korea — One of South Korea’s most senior clergymen says he believes the Catholic Church in communist North Korea is growing, although Catholics live in hiding and endure persecution. Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi, 97, former head of the Archdiocese of Gwangju, South Korea, made the remarks in a recently published book on the […]
National
By Catholic News Service
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Catholic bishops of New York state said May 12 that regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court decides about Roe v. Wade in its final ruling on the Dobbs case from Mississippi, “abortion in New York would continue unfettered.” Catholics must respond “in charity and with sensitivity, but with clarity” to […]
Schools
By Zoey Maraist
Catholic schools are seeing the benefits of employing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Juan A. Puigbó was appointed pastor of St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax effective June 30. He has served as administrator of St. Leo since January. Father Puigbó was born April 6, 1975, in Caracas, Venezuela. He was ordained to the priesthood March 24, 2001, in Caracas, for the Diocese of Maturin. Just […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Catholic Herald
Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments effective on Thursday, June 30, 2022, except where noted differently. Pastors Reverend Juan A. Puigbó — from Administrator of Saint Leo the Great Parish in Fairfax to Pastor of Saint Leo the Great Parish in Fairfax. Parochial Vicars Reverend Maurice M. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The “basic dynamism” of the Catholic Church is its missionary outreach, an effort that should and must flow naturally from a desire to share the love of God and the gift of faith, Pope Francis said. The pope said he gave a “special role” to the new Dicastery for Evangelization in his […]
National
By Rhina Guidos
WASHINGTON — Several U.S. Catholic bishops expressed sorrow and called out gun violence and racism after reports of a May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left at least three injured and 10 dead — a crime authorities categorized as likely motivated by hatred for Black people. “The scourge of senseless gun violence […]
Columns
By Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer
Among Ukraine’s millions of war refugees and internally displaced people, its people receive messages of hope and pastoral support through LOGOS TV, a media ministry of the Byzantine Catholic Church. With programming that includes livestream videos of liturgies and prayer services, news of the Church’s response to the pastoral needs of the victims and refugees […]
Global
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Facing the trauma of conflict requires love and hope, and Caritas has been hard at work sharing this “medicine” with everyone, said the director of Caritas-Spes. The war will not end with just a peace agreement, said Pallottine Father Vyacheslav Grynevych, director of the charitable arm of the Latin-rite Catholic dioceses in […]
