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SEOUL, South Korea — Catholic bishops in South Korea expressed sorrow and offered prayers after more than 150 people died in a stampede during Halloween celebrations in Seoul. They also called for a detailed investigation to identify the cause of the incident. Officials are concerned that the death toll could rise because at least 33 […]
Schools
By Zoey Maraist
Bishop Burbidge celebrates Mass for the school during their silver jubilee year.
Local
By Kimberley Heatherington
Parishioners host candlelit tours of their graveyard to highlight holy men and women. On a dark if not stormy night just hours before Halloween, whistling past a graveyard might chase away scary feelings. But visitors to Sacred Heart Cemetery in Winchester Oct. 30 couldn’t wait to get inside the gates of the Catholic burial ground. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened many parishes, but that community “in the midst of homes, in the midst of people,” is still an essential place for nourishing and sharing faith, Pope Francis told Italian young adults. The parish is “the normal environment where we learned to hear the Gospel, to know the […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Nativity scene that will sit under a 98-foot-tall silver fir tree in the middle of St. Peter’s Square this year will feature 19 life-sized figures carved in cedar by artisans in the northeastern Italian town of Sutrio. The tree comes from Rosello, a village of only 182 residents, in Italy’s central […]
National
WASHINGTON — Calling upon Congress for “radical solidarity” with mothers and babies — both born and unborn — four bishops advanced an ambitious legislative and policy agenda that prioritizes the well-being of families in a letter to lawmakers. The measures proposed by the chairmen of four U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees detail a “vision […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — Universities around the world are taking steps alongside major technology companies to explore ways to bolster ethics education in the artificial intelligence field in line with an initiative supported by the Vatican. The effort seeks to help those already working or aspiring to work in the tech fields understand that the development of […]
Columns
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
“Lord, now let your servant go in peace; your word has been fulfilled.” Thus begins the Canticle of Simeon, the prayer drawn from the words of the prophet who held the baby Jesus in the Temple at the presentation (Lk 2:29-32), a prayer often known by its Latin name “Nunc Dimittis” (“now dismiss”). A canticle […]
Bishop Burbidge
By Bishop Michael F. Burbidge
President Biden recently stated that if the Democratic Party has control of Congress following the November 2022 election, his top priority will be pro-abortion legislation. I condemn abortion and any political tactic that would codify abortion as national policy. Fundamentally, abortion ends the life of a precious child and deeply wounds the child’s mother. The […]
Overcoming the crowd