New Catholic bishop arrives in Alabama during pandemic (AL.com) Bishop Steven J. Raica has moved from Michigan to Alabama and will be installed Tuesday afternoon as head of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, which includes 104,000 Catholics across north and central Alabama. “For me, everything is new,” Raica said. “A lot of it is going to be listening, and meeting people.” The installation ceremony will be broadcast live on EWTN Global Catholic Network starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday from the Cathedral of St. Paul in Birmingham. EWTN will also broadcast a 5 p.m. pre-installation service today at the cathedral, with Raica speaking…
Trump says he will issue executive order to protect public statues (CNA/EWTN) President Donald Trump on Monday said he will issue an executive order designed to protect public statuary, as statues around the country have been torn down or defaced amid protests in recent weeks. The president spoke during an exclusive June 22 interview with Raymond Arroyo, host of EWTN’s “The World Over.” “We’re going to do something very soon,” Trump said. “We’re going to do an executive order. We’re going to make the cities guard their monuments, this is a disgrace…”
India priest’s body found in well; suicide suspected (UCANews.com) The body of a Catholic priest was found in a well close to his parish house in India’s Kerala state. Officials suspect it to be a case of suicide.Police fished out the body of 51-year-old Father George Ettupara on June 22, a day after he went missing from Punnathura village in Alappuzha district of the southern state.He was the parish priest of St. Thomas Church that functions under the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Changanassery…
In Togo, Catholic nun fights coronavirus for her AIDS patients (RNS) “Here, people won’t die from COVID-19 but mostly from its consequences,” said Sister Marie Stella Kouak, a Catholic nun whose nonprofit in Togo, on Africa’s west coast, is on the front line against the pandemic and also facing unforeseen hardship…
‘Parish priest on loan to the missions’ ends tenure at CNEWA (CNS) Msgr. John E. Kozar’s plan is to return to his hometown of Pittsburgh, where he grew up in a Croatian American family and was ordained in 1971. His exact landing place is not yet known, although he told Catholic News Service he hopes to settle in a parish eventually…
