Scheduled for Jan. 19-20 at the national shrine, the vigil has always coincided with the eve of the March for Life, which marks the date of 1973 decision of the court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The 2023 March for Life is Jan. 20.
In a dramatic ceremony, Peter K. Kilpatrick was installed as the 16th president of The Catholic University of America, emphasizing the school’s Catholic identity and pledging to work to help it become the nation’s “premier Catholic research university.”
A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law this summer by President Joe Biden, not only increases the size of the tax credit for conversions to renewable energy but also makes nonprofit entities, like parishes, eligible to receive the tax benefits themselves.
Last year’s United States Conference of Catholic Bishops fall meeting was marked by a discussion on pro-abortion politicians receiving Communion. There’s nothing on this year’s agenda that will garner the same attention, but there are plenty of action items that will impact the future of the U.S. Catholic Church.
After a series of defeats on abortion during this week’s midterm elections, Catholic leaders have emphasized their continued commitment to the pro-life cause and supporting mothers in need.
The Archdiocese for the Military Services’ Catholic Committee on Scouting has developed the Father Capodanno Activity Patch in honor of Servant of God Father Vincent Capodanno, a Staten Island native and U.S. Navy chaplain killed in the Vietnam War in 1967.
Known as the “king of instruments,” the majestic church pipe organ is facing a difficult time. There is a shortage of organists that is affecting not only the 185 parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn but churches across the country. Locally, from Bay Ridge to Bayside, a scarcity of organ players is having an impact on Sunday services.
When Cande de Leon and his wife first married he remembers inviting another couple to their small southern California apartment for Thanksgiving dinner, and the look of terror on the guests’ seven-year-old son’s face during a pre-meal prayer, as if he witnessed some kind of ritual or chant
Catholic church leaders are taking a new approach to passing on the faith, saying they recognize a pressing need to do this in a way that adapts to the modern world.
Ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Arizona’s Catholic bishops alerted voters to “unapproved political efforts” they said are being carried out by a number of organizations and publications claiming to represent the Catholic Church on a variety of issues on the ballot.
