BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – Instead of requiring that implementation of all parts of the new Roman Missal wait until the first Sunday of Advent, bishops who head dioceses can authorize the gradual introduction of the musical settings of the people’s parts of the Mass beginning in September. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, chairman […]
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Vatican Museum Opens Room for Matisse Art
by Sarah Delaney VATICAN CITY (CNS) – After languishing in storage for more than 30 years, three giant collages and other works by French artist Henri Matisse have been given a permanent home in the Vatican Museums. The new space dedicated to the cartoons, models and other preparatory work Matisse did for a small chapel […]
Mercy Home Returns to Willoughby Ave. Roots
Twenty-two years after leaving 273 Willoughby Ave.’s Convent of Mercy, Mercy Home for Children is joyfully returning with a grand homecoming celebration on June 23. A “Welcome Home” party is scheduled for all the staff, volunteers, participants and families. Founded 149 years ago, Mercy Home began when the Sisters of Mercy took in five boys […]
Bayside Students Rock The World With Books
Three students from Sacred Heart of Jesus School, Bayside, have collected over 3,500 children’s book to donate to San Andres, a school in a poor mountain village in the Philippines that had no library for its students. The students, Christopher Wren, Maggie Cash, and Liz Gold, named their newly formed organization “Reading Rocks the World” […]
Prof Says Campus Pro-Lifers Feel Isolated
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) – Many pro-life faculty on college campuses in the United States and Canada have experienced a strong sense of isolation and disrespect for their views, said the newly installed president of University Faculty for Life. They also often are denied university resources that are commonly available to other faculty and some […]
Role of VA Chaplains Is Varied and Changing
by Beth Griffin Catholics who minister to the nation’s military veterans help aging soldiers heal from past wars and support men and women trying to resume civilian life after multiple tours of duty in distant outposts. They work alongside chaplains of many faiths, in multidisciplinary teams that treat the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wounds […]
Assisted Suicide, Abuse In Focus at Bishops’ Spring Assembly
U.S. bishops gather for Mass June 15 before the opening session of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual spring meeting near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash. BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – The U.S. bishops June 16 approved a policy statement on physician-assisted suicide, the first on the issue by the bishops as a body, and they […]
Bishops Urged to Fight Same-Sex Marriage
BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) — Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, Calif., urged his fellow bishops June 15 to fight back in the war of words over efforts to redefine traditional marriage. The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage said organizations advocating the legal redefinition of […]
Parishes Observe Pope’s 60th Anniversary
All parishes of the diocese have been asked to conduct a spiritual observance in honor of the 60th anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. The Congregation of the Clergy in Rome has suggested that each diocese offer 60 hours of Eucharistic adoration to observe the milestone in […]
Mass Revolution
A point needs to be made about the Mass. Not any “kind” of Mass in particular, like the “traditional Mass” or the Novus Ordo. Nor the language of periodic revisions or translations. Nor even the culturally adaptable modes through which the Mass engages the five senses. None of the ritual or rubrical accidentals that give […]