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Bishop Burbidge celebrated the Chrism Mass Oct. 5 after it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. br />br />
Across the diocese, schools and parishes hosted socially distanced pet blessings this weekend in honor of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi Oct. 4.
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis tackled several issues in his new encyclical, but the section devoted to ending capital punishment was particularly cheered by U.S. Catholics who oppose the death penalty.
NEW YORK -- "The family that prays together stays together." Although he popularized rather than originated that pithy saying, the sentence aptly sums up the message of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton (1909-1992), who advocated it both tirelessly and with great success.
SYDNEY -- Tracey Rowland, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, has won the Ratzinger Prize for theology, often described as the field's equivalent to the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Challenger: The Final Flight," a four part docuseries that recalls both the tragedy and the subsequent investigation into what went wrong, is streaming now on Netflix.
LOS ANGELES -- Invoking Mary's intercession for the U.S. together as Catholics is imperative for a country beset by multiple crises, said bishops participating a virtual "Rosary for America" Oct. 7, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Evelyn and Rafael Geigel met when he crashed her 13th birthday party in Puerto Rico. Paula and Burman Skrable both attended daily Mass on campus at Cornell. Tim and Trish Hance met in a bar at the beach.
When we think of saints, "radical" may not be one of the first qualities that comes to mind, but they were, and are, true radicals because they go to the root — the meaning of radical — of the Gospel message. In the new book, "i>Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century/i>," Melanie Rigney has chosen women who lived in the 20th century and were officially canonized in the 21st century. She features a wide variety of women, from those who are well known — such as Teresa of Kolkata and Maria Faustina Kowalska — to many that few of her readers would have ever heard of.
Bishop Burbidge was the homilist Oct. 4 at the 68th annual Red Mass offered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, to invoke God’s blessing and guidance on justices, judges, diplomats, attorneys and senior government officials.
