Weekly public General Audiences with pope to resume (Vatican News) The Prefecture of the Pontifical Household announced on Wednesday that as of Wednesday, 2 September, Pope Francis’s General Audience will once again take place “with the participation of the faithful.” Following the hygiene directives issued by the competent authorities, the audiences for the month of September will be held in the Apostolic Palace’s San Damaso courtyard…
In wake of Kenosha violence, bishop urges day of fasting, prayer (USCCB) Friday, August 28 marks the 57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington where Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech. Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism offered a reflection on Dr. King’s iconic words on the anniversary…
Pandemic forces nuns to cancel Mother Teresa anniversary event (UCANews) Missionaries of Charity (MC) nuns canceled the usual birth anniversary celebrations of their founder St. Mother Teresa this year after some nuns tested positive for Covid-19. The nun’s 110th birth anniversary passed off without the customary celebrations on Aug. 26 at the congregation’s headquarters, 22 years after her death…
O’Malley: teaching on life issues takes highest priority (CNA) Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM, Cap., said that Catholics have “the right to expect the priests of the Archdiocese and those entrusted with handing on the faith to be clear and unequivocal on the Church’s teaching concerning respect and protection for life from the first moment of conception to natural death.” O’Malley said that archdiocesan clergy, as well as “religious and laity who minister or serve in the Archdiocese of Boston,” as representatives of the archdiocese, are not to endorse or condemn political candidates or political parties…
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