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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of two women and three men, including an Italian laywoman who was once believed to be demonically possessed because of her violent convulsions after drinking unsafe water.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Catholic college and university leaders have joined the nation's higher education community in condemning a new policy announced by the Trump administration that would prevent international students from remaining in or coming to the United States if their colleges use a completely online format in the fall semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- If the new Tom Hanks movie "Greyhound" had been about a bus, or a breed of dog, director Aaron Schneider would have been interested anyway.
The fire that ravaged Mission San Gabriel Arcángel church in the predawn hours of July 11 left behind a haunting scene. In a matter of minutes, the mission's 230-year-old roof was nearly gone. The sunlight pouring down through the holes revealed the charred planks that had crashed down on the church's pews. The altar, along with the mission's bell tower and museum, were spared, but the thick adobe walls were blackened.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee said the federal emergency "bridge loans" that dioceses, parishes and other Catholic entities applied for provided a lifeline, allowing "our essential ministries to continue to function in a time of national emergency." "The Catholic Church is the largest nongovernmental supplier of social services in the United States," said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City. "Each year, our parishes, schools and ministries serve millions of people in need, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion."
Father Augustus Tolton, the first identified Black priest ordained for the United States, would likely be disappointed by what he sees going on in the United States today, said Father David Jones, pastor of St. Benedict the African Church in Chicago.
PHOENIX (CNS) -- Robin Puttock gave the students in her architecture class at The Catholic University of America in Washington an unusual assignment -- to consider how the design of a workspace affects mental health.
Though more people are allowed in churches, many parishioners still opt to stay home.
Diocesan numbers from the past three months suggest that parishioners have embraced livestreamed Masses, which offer a safe and convenient way to stay connected to church, with no masks or social distancing required.
Wheat and weeds
Isaiah Chapter 55 says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways” (55:8). This reminder the Lord gives us through his prophet may well resound in our minds as we consider the Gospel passage for the 16th week in ordinary time. In this text, Christ makes clear that though the wicked certainly grow among the good in the field of the world, he is the one who will separate them out at the end of time, and it is not ours to root them out at will.