Archive for December 13, 2019

Cardinal George Pell of Sydney speaks during a press conference at the Vatican Press Office on July 9, 2014. ?w=200&h=150

By Ed Condon

Senior Victoria cops said Pell investigation could distract from major police scandal

Senior police officials in the Australian state of Victoria discussed by email the way that their 2014 investigation into Cardinal... Read more

A young Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio. ?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis celebrates 50th ordination anniversary by honoring his mentor

Fifty years ago on Dec. 13, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained a Jesuit priest in Argentina. As pope, he will... Read more

Pope Francis meets with the bishops of the USCCB's Region VI, from Ohio and Michigan, at the Vatican, Dec. 10, 2019. ?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

US bishops in Rome ask Pope Francis about McCarrick report

American bishops from the Midwest met with Pope Francis this week with questions about the outcome of the Vatican’s investigation... Read more

Bishop James Conley in the Cathedral of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska, on Ash Wednesday, 2019. ?w=200&h=150

Bishop Conley announces medical leave of absence from Lincoln diocese

Bishop James Conley announced Friday that he is taking a medical leave of absence from his ministry as Bishop of... Read more

St Peter's Square, Vatican City. ?w=200&h=150

‘No logical connection’ between celibacy and abuse, CDF official says

A senior official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has defended clerical celibacy in the wake of... Read more

Orthodox Jewish couple. Stock photo via Shutterstock.?w=200&h=150

By Matt Hadro

Bishops condemn antisemitism after New Jersey shooting

The U.S. bishops’ conference on Friday condemned the antisemitic shooting at a kosher market in Jersey City earlier this week,... Read more

A Hidden Life. Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

‘A Hidden Life’ brings story of Bl. Franz Jaggerstatter and his wife to the big screen

A new film opening this weekend tells the story of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, whose refusal to fight for the Nazis... Read more

Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, who was appointed Archbishop of Juba Dec. 12, 2019.?w=200&h=150

Group of South Sudanese clerics, laity reject Juba archbishop appointment

A group of three priests and five laymen from the Archdiocese of Juba wrote Thursday to the Congregation for the... Read more

Sunrise in Bethlehem city. ?w=200&h=150

For Gaza Christians, no Christmas travels to Bethlehem and Jerusalem

Church leaders in Jerusalem are appealing to Israeli authorities to reverse a decision that prohibits the Christmastime travel permits that... Read more

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New Jersey bishop opposes contraception bill removing religious exemption

A New Jersey bishop is calling on legislators to amend a bill that would force religious groups to fund contraceptive... Read more

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Cardinal Angelo De Donatis.

Diocese of Rome shake-up: Pope Francis transfers vicar to Vatican post

Father Ryan Stawaisz.

New film tells inspiring story of young priest who left a lasting impact

“A retreat is a moment of prolonged personal encounter, without distractions, with God, and in God, with oneself," says Father Guillermo Serra.

Why go on a spiritual retreat?

A room at the former hospice facility run by the Delta Hospice Society in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian government in 2020 ended a $1.5 million funding contract with Delta Hospice over the organization’s refusal to implement medical assistance in dying (MAID). Then British Columbian Fraser Health Authority terminated the property lease with Delta Hospice, which shut the facility down. 

Hospice leader in Canada promotes anti-euthanasia film: ‘My life’s work’

View of a pantheon built by the Red Cross to bury the bodies of irregular migrants at the Municipal Cemetery of El Real de Santa Maria, Darien Province, Panama, on March 8, 2023, on the eve of its delivery to Panamanian authorities. The Red Cross constructed the hundred niches pantheon to bury the bodies of irregular migrants who die during their journey through the inhospitable Darien jungle in search of the American dream.

‘Out of Christian charity,’ priests bury migrants who died in Darien jungle

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St. Thomas-Houston university’s new sex and gender program based on ‘Catholic anthropology’  

Former Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (right) meets with legislators in the Netherlands in 1983.

Thomas Gumbleton, former Detroit auxiliary bishop known for political activism, dies at 94

Discarded Communion hosts were found in the parking lot of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, after Easter Mass on March 31, 2024.

Communion wafers found discarded in parking lot of West Virginia church after Easter Mass

A person holds a foil while smoking following the decriminalization of all drugs, including fentanyl and meth, in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 25, 2024. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, just a fine and a card with a telephone number where the user can get help.

Oregon re-criminalizes hard drugs after ‘overdose rates skyrocketed’

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Catholic University locks down after fatal shooting at Washington, DC, subway station

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