Search Results
Brothers and sisters in Christ, on May 14, the Church will begin a nine-day global campaign to mark the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. In this beautiful work, Pope Francis builds upon the teaching legacy of his predecessors Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI to urge Catholics and people of good will to care for all of God’s creation.
Bishop Burbidge told the faithful that the diocese is working to find ways to return to normal sacramental life safely but surely.
Marymount University in Arlington established a new academic partnership with OpusCare, a Miami-based nonprofit, to offer a certificate seminar series on palliative care.
In just two months, nearly 1,300 bills passed, some drastically altering or even erasing decades of state policy.
When word came that Illinois residents were being asked to stay home and the Archdiocese of Chicago suspended public Masses in mid-March, Chicago-based iconographer Joseph Malham was at loose ends, like so many others. He decided to use the time to create, and the result is a 3-foot-by-4-foot icon of Christ the Healer, an image he completed in just about three weeks.
This is a time “to choose what matters and what passes away,” we heard Pope Francis say March 27 as we gathered around a laptop in our kitchen. St. Peter’s Square was emblematic of our lives — usually so packed but now eerily quiet.
Celebrating Mary during the month of May seems as natural as blossoms opening in spring. I never actually knew why we celebrated Mary during May, just that it was tradition. It may have had something to do with the arrival of spring, a relief from the bitter cold of winters in Western Massachusetts. The fragrance of spring lilacs reminded us that life was being renewed. Perhaps it was the special crowning ceremony when, as a child at Catholic school, we crowned the beautiful statue of Mary in our church, recognizing her as “Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May.”
From updates provided by state officials, we are preparing to enter Phase 1 of reintegrating our diocese back to normal operations.
Hallow is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000 downloads in 50 countries and has been used to pray over 1 million times.
Once a week throughout this pandemic, we’ll bring you fun and uplifting videos, photos and posts from people throughout the diocese.
