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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Becoming a member of the broad, unique body of the College of Cardinals is both a great honor and an invitation to help promote a renewal of the Catholic Church’s mission of evangelization, some new cardinals said. With 20 newly created cardinals representing 16 countries, and with the entire college of 226 […]
Schools
By Ana Lucia Batista
Eighth graders at St. Ann School in Arlington will start the school year sporting the school’s exclusive sweatshirt with a brand-new logo unveiled at a fashion show Aug. 18. “We are launching a new logo, a refreshed logo, and an exclusive eighth grade sweatshirt just for our eighth graders,” said Oriana MacGregor, the school’s director […]
National
By Barb Umberger
PAUL, Minn. — Angela Franey, executive director of Abria Pregnancy Resources, said recent vandalism at the organization’s St. Paul location and dozens of similar attacks on pregnancy centers around the country reflect recent anger and misunderstanding around the issue of abortion. She also believes the damage also stems from a misunderstanding of the mission of […]
Global
By John Shaughnessy
INDIANAPOLIS — John Mundell considers it “an incredible honor” that he was recently chosen as the director of the worldwide effort to put Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” into action. At the same time, the member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis feels a great responsibility to […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Fifty years have passed since St. Paul VI instituted the ministries of lector and acolyte, opening them to the laity, and Pope Francis wants a formal “dialogue” with the world’s bishops’ conferences to discuss their experiences with the ongoing promotion of the church’s ministries so they foster unity and evangelization. The pope […]
National
By Catholic News Service
YORK BEACH, Maine — With so many summer chapels and mission churches open across Maine during the warmer months, scheduling priests to fill the Mass schedules can be daunting. So when Star of the Sea Church in York Beach found itself needing a priest for more than 350 people assembled for Sunday Mass Aug. 21, […]
Schools
Several diocesan schools welcome new leadership ahead of the 2022-23 school year: Adrianne Jewett, principal of Linton Hall School in Bristow, earned her bachelor’s in biological sciences, and two master’s in education: in administration/supervision Catholic school leadership, and curriculum and instruction. She worked for 18 years at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna, in […]
Schools
Fourteen years ago, the nation’s first four-year bioethics curriculum launched at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School. Now, the author and department chair behind the landmark program passes the torch to new leadership and emphasizes the enduring need for ethical formation of this generation’s high school students. In 2008, the nation buzzed with […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
ROME — Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who was expected to meet Pope Francis at the Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, will not attend the interreligious gathering in September, a senior Russian Orthodox bishop said. Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, confirmed to the Russian news […]
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