Communion more than once? Priest estranged from father
Q. I know that people can receive holy Communion twice in one day if they are present at those Masses for particular circumstances. But how about a lector or church musician who might be on duty for three or four Masses on the same day? Can they take Communion at each of those Masses? (York, South...Read full story »
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Third-largest U.S. Delegation to Attend World Youth Day 2016
WASHINGTON—More than 40,000 Americans are registered to attend World Youth Day, July 26-31, in Krakow, Poland. To assist this record breaking number of participants from the United States, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth has...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
California Catholic bishops back initiative to abolish death penalty
SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) – The California Catholic bishops announced their support July 14 for Proposition 62, a voter initiative on the November ballot that would repeal the death penalty. The bishops timed their statement to coin...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Commercials with inviting message about Catholic Church hit movie screens
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- They represent a captive audience -- the hundreds of people inside a movie theater waiting for the big screen to light up with the film they paid good money to see. Now the Archdiocese of New Orleans, perhaps in a bow to "Star Trek" and Pope Francis' evangelizing message of enc...Read full story »
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Pope brings Latin American vision to universal mission of the church
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The challenges and experiences of the church in Latin America figure heavily in Pope Francis' papacy, especially when it comes to making bishop appointments, addressing global issues and the pastoral care of the poor and the marginalized. Pope Francis' preference for "shepherds...Read full story »
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
U.S. Church urged to turn attention to racism before fractures widen
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Father Bryan Massingale, a priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese and well-known theologian, knows what it's like to be watched by police. He said that as a black man there have been times he has been followed by police officers on the campus of Marquette University, where he taught...Read full story »
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
USCCB president says violence calls for 'moment of national reflection'
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The shooting of police officers July 7 near the end of a demonstration in Dallas to protest fatal shootings by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier in the week "calls us to a moment of national reflection," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bish...Read full story »
Monday, July 11, 2016
Amoris Laetitia' at three months: Communion question still debated
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Three months after the publication of Pope Francis' exhortation on marriage and family, bishops and bishops' conferences around the world are studying practical ways to apply it. Some still disagree on what exactly the pope meant. In the first week of July, P...Read full story »
Friday, July 08, 2016
Five Dallas officers killed in ambush; bishop calls for prayer and peace
DALLAS (CNS) -- Five Dallas law enforcement officers were assassinated July 7 as at least one sniper opened fire in downtown Dallas as hundreds of demonstrators were winding down a march protesting recent fatal officer-involved shootings in other parts of the country. The suspecte...Read full story »
Friday, July 08, 2016
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel remembered for role as world's conscience
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and prolific author who died July 2 at age 87 in his New York home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standing up for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities of the...Read full story »
Thursday, July 07, 2016
