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Encuentro process aimed at meeting needs, fostering sense of mission
Most dioceses and archdioceses around the country are holding their diocesan encuentros throughout the fall, highlighting what contributions Hispanic Catholics bring to the Catholic Church and their faith communities.
In receiving pallium, cardinal says he will ‘spend my life for the flock’
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the U.S. papal nuncio, imposed the pallium on Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the sixth archbishop of Newark, at a Sept. 14 Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Archbishop calls for peace after verdict, asks community to come together
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis called for peace following a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley.
Bishop defends Jesuit priest after seminary withdraws invitation
A U.S. bishop vigorously defended Jesuit Father James Martin when a prominent U.S. seminary canceled an invitation it had extended to speak about Jesus at an October event, after fringe groups unhappy with the priest's recent book about the church and the gay community mounted a series of attacks.
Parishioners, Knights knock on doors, aid senior citizens after Irma
Hearing the call to be good neighbors, local Catholics prepared hot meals and checked on senior residents of a nursing community where eight people had died in the aftermath of the storm.
Key West Catholic school struggles to reopen after Hurricane Irma
Key West was not ready for an immediate, rapid return of residents. As of Sept. 18, water service was being rationed, available only four hours each day. Cellphone service was only recently restored, electricity remained out and gasoline was in short supply.
North Miami parish serves up a post-hurricane luxury: A hot meal
Thanks to Father Fritz Bellonce, pastor of Holy Family Church in North Miami, many people in the area around the church had hot meals after Hurricane Irma knocked out power to the community.
German theologian: Reformation meant different things in different eras
How Protestants regarded Martin Luther has evolved as the he engendered has likewise evolved, according to German Catholic theologian Father Peter Neuner.
Catholic-Lutheran ecumenical efforts have borne fruit in past 50 years
Kathryn Johnson, director of ecumenical and interreligious relations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest U.S. Lutheran body, said she rejects the concept of "ecumenical winter" as if to describe a stall in ecumenism.
Boston College says students doing well after acid attack in France
The female students, all juniors, plan to remain in Europe for their studies and offered forgiveness to the woman who sprayed them with an acid solution outside of the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, according to a statement posted on the university's website.