Adapting to ever-changing COVID-19 related restrictions, next year’s World Meeting of Families (WMF) will take place both in Rome and every diocese around the world.
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Bishop DiMarzio To Celebrate Mass to Open Synod Process in the Diocese of Brooklyn Oct. 9
Pope Francis has called on the world’s bishops to gather in Rome for a synod, but long before the clergymen board their flights to the Eternal City, a great deal of preparation will take place — right down to the diocesan level.
Bishop Caggiano: ‘The Church is Fracturing’
Bridgeport Bishop Frank Caggiano says if the Church is to inspire the world to live out the messages of Pope Francis, it first needs to fix its own fractures and come together.
As Pope Urges Open Doors, Migrants Face Closures Around the World
Celebrating the World Day of Migrants and Refugees Sunday, Pope Francis implored the world “not to close doors to hope.”
Pope Francis ‘Accepts’ Afghan’s Wedding Ring as Sign of Friendship, Hope
When Pary Gul, a Christian woman from Afghanistan, met Pope Francis Sept. 22, she gave him her wedding ring as a reminder of her husband, who has disappeared and may be dead.
From Season of Creation to Calls for Creative Ecological Plans
The annual Season of Creation traditionally ends on Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. On that day, Catholics worldwide will start planning long-term strategies to reverse the consequences of climate change.
Opening Mass at Dunwoodie Celebrates 125th Anniversary
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio joined hundreds more for Mass celebrating the 125th year of St. Joseph’s Seminary & College at Dunwoodie, Yonkers. Auxiliary Bishop James Massa, the rector, said the hill-top campus is “merely a branch campus of the one that the Great Teacher founded back in Galilee, two millennia ago.”
Pope Says Pro-Abortion Politicians Are ‘Outside Community’ of Church, But Urges Pastoral Response
Pope Francis on Wednesday said that Communion is for those who are “in the community” and politicians who support abortion are “outside of the community.”
Pope Francis Urges Slovakia to Protect Life From ‘Culture of Death’
Pope Francis’s first European tour in the COVID-19 era ended with a bang, as he celebrated Mass for 60,000 people in the field surrounding the national Basilica of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows.
Religious Leaders Offer Prayers Before Start of U.N. General Assembly
In the face of widespread evidence of humanity’s dark side, speakers a prayer service Sept. 13 — on the eve of the opening of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly — identified unmistakable signs of hope.