Border guards stop Catholic archbishop at border of Belarus (CNA) Border guards blocked a Catholic archbishop from returning to Belarus Monday. Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev was attempting to enter Belarus from Poland when he was stopped by border guards, reported the website of the Catholic Church in Belarus Aug. 31…
Famed Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson dies at 78 (CNS) John Thompson, the Hall of Fame college basketball coach who guided Georgetown University in Washington to a national championship in 1984, died Aug. 31 at age 78. No cause of death was given. He was the first African American to win a national championship in a major college sport when he took the 1983-84 Georgetown Hoyas to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball title. In 26 full years of coaching at Georgetown, he led the team to the NCAA tournament 20 times, including 14 years in a row and three trips to the Final Four in a four-year span…
Msgr. Pope: I was hit hard by COVID-19, and I’m still not afraid (National Catholic Register) Some have asked me, “Have you changed your views on COVID-19 now that you have been so sick with it?” No. I am a survivor. COVID-19 brought me to the precipice…
Nigerian priest dies while preaching (Nigerian Daily Post) A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Jude, slumped and died on the altar during a Sunday mass in Deido, Cameroon. The priest, who is also a Spiritual Director of Catholic Men Association (CMA) in Deido, was seen in a viral video preaching the Homily while wearing a face mask before he paused for a moment and slumped. The former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission and lawyer, Chidi Odinkalu, who shared the video via his Twitter account, said the priest who appeared to be struggling to breathe, slumped few seconds after he started preaching the homily…
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