Archive for April 5, 2024
Catholic Home Missions Appeal: an opportunity for parishes to ‘minister to their neighbors’
Grants funded by this appeal have boosted priestly vocations and supported evangelization efforts, among other projects, in places that lack... Read more
Catholic bishop urges U.S. Secretary of State to build ‘partnership’ with Nigeria to address violence
Bishop Elias Zaidan urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to heed the concerns of Nigerian bishops who describe their situation... Read more
New episode involving land dispute shakes Armenian community in Jerusalem again
According to a communique, on April 3 “an unlawful eviction was initiated by Israeli police on the grounds of the... Read more
French court sentences Cardinal Ouellet, religious community to fines after expelling nun
A French court has fined Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, and others for the wrongful dismissal of Sabine Baudin de... Read more
Oregon re-criminalizes hard drugs after ‘overdose rates skyrocketed’
The law ordered that individuals arrested for possession of drugs could have their citation dismissed if they called a state-created... Read more
Catholic University locks down after fatal shooting at Washington, DC, subway station
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon on the Metrorail platform adjacent to the university’s campus. Read more
Communion wafers found discarded in parking lot of West Virginia church after Easter Mass
Father Timothy Grassi of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church said he suspects the action was “a way for [someone] to... Read more
Thomas Gumbleton, former Detroit auxiliary bishop known for political activism, dies at 94
In announcing his death this week, Archbishop Allen Vigneron described Gumbleton as “a faithful son of the Archdiocese of Detroit.” Read more
St. Thomas-Houston university’s new sex and gender program based on ‘Catholic anthropology’
The four-course sequence includes online classes in Catholic anthropology, the history of gender, and the science and social science of... Read more
‘Out of Christian charity,’ priests bury migrants who died in Darien jungle
The inhospitable Darién jungle has for years become an unavoidable route for hundreds of thousands of migrants who want to... Read more
