Many families joined the Eucharistic processions and other events in St. Louis this past weekend as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
The St. Junipero Serra Route began in San Francisco in May and arrived in the St. Louis area to enthusiastic crowds.
Carroll was the only signer of the Declaration who was Catholic — in a time and place when Catholics faced serious prejudice and marginalization.
Voters in Baltimore will decide this fall whether to approve a $1,000 bonus that parents would receive upon the birth or adoption of a child.
In a statement June 30, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Holy Land suggested Israel’s behavior in Gaza goes beyond the “proportionate use of force.”
The official charitable arm of the U.S. Catholic bishops, CRS has in recent years pushed for more government funds, which make up a substantial portion of its budget.
July 1 is the feast day of St. Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan priest who brought Catholicism to California.
A spokesperson for a major Catholic hospital system based in Ohio clarified to CNA this week that the system does not perform abortions.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said he has “no reason to consider myself separate from communion with the Holy Church and with the papacy.”
“We have been through a lot, but we’re holding it together. And God has been really blessing us a lot on this western route,” pilgrim Jimmy Velasco said.
The two prelates will have to pay 1,500 euro (about $1,605) each, the court ordered.
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has upheld a decision by Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski to close a parish as part of a pastoral planning initiative.
Sioux City Bishop Walker Nickless has established a flood victims relief collection to be taken in all diocesan parishes July 6-7.
Oklahoma’s two Catholic bishops called the ruling “very disappointing.”
Pope Francis met with Ivan Soltanovsky, Russia’s ambassador to the Holy See, on June 22.
The Catholic bishops of Ireland issued a statement laying out the Church’s teaching on end-of-life issues and advocating for palliative care.
“Peace is always made together,” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said June 19 as reported by Vatican News.
The four pilgrimage groups — currently in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Nebraska — will converge in Indianapolis on July 16.
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As reported by President Davide Prosperi, the pope spoke of “the need to share the charism and for a co-responsibility in the leadership of the movement.”