Eight young adults embarked on the journey of a lifetime Pentecost Sunday, led by San Francisco’s archbishop holding Jesus in the Eucharist, traveling across the Golden Gate Bridge on the first leg of a more than 2,200-mile evangelizing pilgrimage across America to Indianapolis.
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National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Eastern Route Kicks Off: ‘We Walk Together as the Body of Christ’
Under a cold drizzle, scores of Catholics in New Haven sang and prayed while following the Eucharistic Jesus in procession. This May 18 display of faith marked the first Eucharistic procession of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s eastern route.
Northern Pilgrimage Begins With a Call to Holiness and an Intimate Walk in the Woods with Jesus
In full vestments and flanked by pines, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens held high the Eucharist in a golden monstrance, making the sign of the cross over the stream that flowed gently from the placid lake behind him. Next to him, a signpost read, “Here 1,475 FT above the ocean, the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.”
St. John’s University Honors Bishop Brennan With a Second Academic Degree
One of the 1,891 recipients of academic degrees at St. John’s University’s Queens campus commencement on May 19 was an alumnus who got his first diploma there in 1984. The graduate then was Robert Brennan, who is now Bishop Robert Brennan upon whom the university conferred a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree these 40 years later.
In ’60 Minutes’ Interview, Pope Clarifies Same-Sex Blessings, Speaks Out Against War, Says Clergy Abuse Can ‘Not Be Tolerated’
In the latest comment from the Vatican on “Fiducia Supplicans,” the controversial declaration issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in December 2023 that includes guidelines on the blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis clarified that he didn’t allow blessings of “the union” but of “each person.”
New EPA Drinking Water Standards May Help U.S. Ensure a Basic Human Right to Safe Water
“Access to safe drinkable water,” Pope Francis said in his milestone 2015 ecological encyclical “Laudato Si’,” “is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights.”
Fatal Bus Crash in Florida Seen as Reminder of How Farmworkers Are All Too Often Forgotten
Victims of a fatal bus accident that claimed the lives of eight migrant farmworkers were remembered at a prayer vigil — and the tragedy shows that farmworkers are all too often “lost and forgotten,” said one of the organizers.
Vietnam-Vatican Working Group Hold First Meeting Since New Agreement
The Vatican-Vietnam joint working group held its first meeting since last year’s important agreement allowing for a papal representative to reside in Vietnam and the establishment of an office there to support Vietnam’s estimated 6.5 million Catholics.
Pentecost Pilgrimage From Paris to Chartres Will Have Record Number of Pilgrims
The traditional Notre-Dame de Chrétienté pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres that takes place over the Pentecost weekend had a record number of 16,000 pilgrims in 2023, but this year the number is thousands beyond that.
In New Vetting Process for Apparitions, Vatican Nixes ‘Supernatural’ Label
On Friday, the Vatican rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged Marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomena, ruling that they will no longer be deemed supernatural but simply that nothing stands in the way of encouraging devotion.