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By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Augustine Minh Hai Tran was installed pastor of St. John Bosco Church in Woodstock during Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge March 5. Father Tran has served at the parish for three years, as parochial vicar and parish administrator. Read more To read more on his appointment, go to catholicherald.com/article/local/parishes/fr-tran-named-pastor-of-st-john-bosco.
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has further updated the statutes of the Institute for the Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank, clarifying the roles of different supervisory bodies and limiting the terms of service of various authorities. After having completely restructured the institute in mid-2019, the pope said he saw a […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The mission to spread the Gospel message of God’s love and of salvation in Christ is entrusted to all the baptized who are called to work together and never set out alone, Pope Francis said. The “ecclesial” dimension of evangelization “is binding and guarantees the authenticity of Christian proclamation,” the pope said […]
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By Zoey Maraist
Today, thousands of couples in 90 countries, including more than 800 in the United States, are part of the group that helps couples grow closer to God and each other.
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By Pat Zapor
In a panel marking 10 years of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory reminded the audience of the groundbreaking programs that have been the hallmark of the initiative’s regular dialogues. As panelists Feb. 28 in turn considered how Pope Francis has shaped the Catholic Church over […]
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By Kevin Schweers
The booming, baritone voices that rang throughout St. Joseph Church in Herndon during Mass March 4 had the cadence of a military exercise at times. These men were gathered for a spiritual bootcamp and the pursuit of a deeper relationship with God, through Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The diocesan Men’s Conference 2023 […]
National
By Jonah McKeown
A parish church in southern Indiana that dates to the late 19th century had its roof ripped off in a windstorm Friday. Photos shared by the Diocese of Evansville show the roof of St. Joseph Church, located in rural Vanderburgh County, lying in a crumpled heap nearby. Father Gene Schroeder, the church’s pastor, told CNA […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican officially signed the papers transferring to the Orthodox Church of Greece three marble fragments from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the fragments had been in the Vatican Museums’ collection for about 200 years. As he prepared to sign the papers, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, president of the commission governing Vatican […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named five new members to his international Council of Cardinals and renewed the mandate of four current members, the Vatican announced March 7. Those whose mandates have been renewed are: Cardinals Seán P. O’Malley of Boston, 78, who was appointed to the council in 2013; Pietro Parolin, 68, Vatican secretary […]
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By Walter Sánchez Silva
Father Jacques Mourad, a Syrian Catholic monk who was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State terrorists in 2015 and managed to escape after five months in captivity, was consecrated as the new archbishop of Homs, Syria. At the March 3 Mass for the episcopal consecration, Bishop Flavien Rami Al-Kabalan, procurator of the Syrian Patriarchate of […]
