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Italian festival features Mass, street procession in Norristown
The 115th annual M.S.S. Feast, the oldest Italian festival in Montgomery County, will be celebrated Aug. 18 featuring a procession through the borough's streets with a statue of Our Lady.
Vatican officials among church leaders at Medjugorje youth festival
Senior Vatican representatives joined the first officially approved church festival at Medjugorje, three months after Catholic pilgrimages to the site in Bosnia-Herzegovina were authorized by the pope.
Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Syro-Malabar Bishop Thomas Elavanal of Kalyan, India, asked their parish priests Aug. 5 to help stranded and homeless people as heavy rain continued in western India.
Pope’s general audience talks cover fundamentals of Catholic faith
The Wednesday general audience offers the pope the opportunity to help people understand the fundamental teachings and beliefs of the Catholic faith. Each catechesis is often part of a longer series of talks dedicated to a major theme.
Storm warning: Quiet summer days risk flash controversies
Questions and controversy, accusations and explanations blew through Rome and across the webiverse concerning big changes underway at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences.
Parishioners, community members learn how to accompany migrants
Some 200 attendees from 30 parishes and the surrounding area gathered for a July 27 workshop on supporting those facing immigration detention and deportation. Sponsored by the Archdiocese and several partner organizations, the session kicked off a new grassroots ministry.
Knights give over $185 million to charity, 76 million service hours in 2018
The New Haven-based Catholic fraternal organization announced its charitable activity over the last year in a July 31 news release, issued ahead of its annual Supreme Convention in Minneapolis Aug. 6-8.
El Paso bishop meets with victims, family members of Texas mass shooting
UPDATED - Bishop Mark J. Seitz met with the families of those who were killed and wounded during the Aug. 3 shooting at a Walmart in the city where he serves, and in a statement following the meeting said his heart "was breaking," after seeing up-close the human aftermath of the crime.
Beyond prayers, U.S. bishops call for action after deadly shootings
In response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 3 and 4, U.S. bishops prayed for victims while also expressing outrage over the continuing tragedies and their root causes.
America’s oldest Newman Center preps for 125th anniversary
The renovated facility at St. Agatha-St. James Parish in Philadelphia, which serves students at Penn and Drexel universities, will mark its milestone in October as its founder, Cardinal Newman, is made a saint.