Pope Francis to issue motu proprio on ministry of catechists (CNA) Pope Francis will issue an apostolic letter next week on the ministry of catechist. The Holy See press office said May 5 that the papal letter, issued motu proprio (“on his own impulse”), would be presented at a press conference on May 11. It described the apostolic letter, Antiquum ministerium, as the means “by which the ministry of catechist is instituted…”
Church in India celebrates canonization of first lay person (Crux) India’s newest saint is “a model a beacon for us and for future generations,” according to one bishop. Nilakandan Pillai was born in 1712 in what is now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in the south of the Indian subcontinent. When he was baptized, he took the name “Lazarus” – Devasahayam in the local Tamil language. He stopped using the name “Pillai” after his conversion, since it was a Hindu caste name…
Former Jehovah’s Witness to be ordained priest (Aleteia) Miguel Mendoza, a 25 year-old Mexican-American, was ordained to the diaconate last February 13, together with eight other seminarians of the archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, where he was born. A former Jehovah’s Witness, he’ll be ordained a Catholic priest in the coming months…
Statue of Polish priest vandalized in New York (New York Daily News) Vandals trashed a statue of a revered Polish Catholic priest in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park, police said Wednesday. Garbage was strewn around the statue of murdered freedom fighter Father Jerzy Popiełuszko near the corner of Nassau and Bedford Aves. and the words “No Polish” were scrawled on the stone, cops said…
