Sister Antoinette Gutzler, M.M., the Brooklyn-born president-elect of Maryknoll Sisters, celebrated 50 years with the congregation this past Sunday, Oct. 12, at a special Mass offered at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, N.Y.
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Dallas Diocese Houses Ebola Victim’s Family
DALLAS (CNS) – Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that he followed the teaching of Christ and stepped in to house the fiancee of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and three others for several weeks at a diocesan facility because when no one else would.
Bishop Urges Priests to Pray Outside Abortuary
Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo has asked all priests of his diocese to spend at least one hour in prayer before the state’s only abortion facility and to join him in a procession to the facility.
Sister ‘Tesa’ Wins National Prize
Sister Teresa “Tesa” Fitzgerald, a Sister of St. Joseph from Brentwood, L.I., who directs the Hour Children program that helps women in prison and former women inmates as well as their children, has won the 2014 Opus Prize for faith-based humanitarian work.
Students Honored for Mission Sunday Contributions
Last Sunday at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn, the Propagation of the Faith Office conducted its annual World Mission Sunday event as schoolchildren from the diocese were honored for their donations to the missions.
Saintly Museum
WASHINGTON (CNS) – In the heart of the national shrine dedicated to one of the most revered figures in Church and world history, a new exhibit pays further homage to the man who embodied the Catholic Church for more than 25 years.
Dallas Nurse with Ebola Supported by Parish Prayers
Father Jim Khoi asked for prayers for Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who grew up in the parish and is now in the news as the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the U.S.
Both Sides Dissatisfied With Same-Sex Ruling
WASHINGTON (CNS) – When the Supreme Court declined to review the appeals on rulings striking down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional, many people were left second-guessing why this happened and what it means for the future of same-sex marriages and bans on such marriages.
Nuns Respond to Declining Numbers in Different Ways
WASHINGTON (CNS) – A longtime trend of declining numbers of women in religious orders is unpacked a bit in a new study by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).
Synod Shifts Emphasis on Moral Issues
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In strikingly conciliatory language on situations contrary to Catholic teaching, an official midterm report from the Synod of Bishops on the family emphasized calls for greater acceptance and appreciation of divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and homosexuals.