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OXFORD, England — A community of Benedictine monks has vowed to continue ministering at a Spanish civil war memorial marked by a 460-foot cross despite a bill pending in parliament that would ban expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Franco's 20th-century dictatorship.
WASHINGTON — A Catholic school in Lansing, Mich., and two school parents are suing state officials over the state's requirement that students wear face masks in school, saying this violated the school's religious practices.
WASHINGTON — At a Capitol Hill media event July 21, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory joined immigrants, agriculture and business representatives and two U.S. senators in calling for legislative protections for immigrants that keep families together, including a pathway to citizenship.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed a new, high-tech ultrasound machine at the Manassas Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic July 20. The $32,000 machine was donated primarily by the Knights of Columbus Fr. Julius J. Cilinski Council 10947 in Clifton.
Have you ever stopped to wonder in awe at the power of an apology? So many supernatural things have to happen for an apology to be everything it has the potential to be. Apologies are kind of here-now miracles that can happen to everyday people every day. If only we cooperate.
Someone once gave me a plaque that read, "If you want to be a pilgrim on the road of life, you have to travel light."
WASHINGTON — Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, the general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since November, has resigned from the post after the USCCB "became aware of impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior by Msgr. Burrill," said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB president.
On Sunday, July 25, we observe the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, established by Pope Francis to be held on the fourth Sunday of July every year.
POMPTON PLAINS, N.J. — Gerald "Jerry" Michael Costello, a Catholic press veteran who was a reporter, columnist, book author and founding editor of three newspapers, died July 19 after a five-year struggle with Parkinson's disease. He was 90.
God works with all we offer
Why does God ask us to do anything? This might seem like an odd question, but the Gospel passage we contemplate here, the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000, certainly raises the issue. When the apostles bring the problem of the hungry crowd to Jesus, the Gospel tells us that “he himself knew what he was going to do.” He already has everything under control and needs no help to feed the crowds. If he wanted to, Christ could have produced bread out of nothing rather than multiply the little that was at hand and offered. So why does he use the five loaves and two fish? If he doesn’t really need the help, what is the point?