SF Catholics plan processions to ‘free the Mass’ (CNA) The Archbishop of San Francisco has called Catholics to participate in Eucharistic processions across the city Sept. 20, which will join together and walk past city hall before public Masses are said outside the city’s cathedral – in part to protest the city’s revised limits on public worship. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a memo to priests Sept. 13 that separate processions would begin at St. Anthony, St. Patrick, and Star of the Sea parishes, and would converge at United Nations Plaza near San Francisco City Hall…
Mask-wearing clergy greet new bishop of Cleveland (Akron Beacon Journal) For just the 12th time in 173 years, the faithful gathered Monday afternoon to witness the installation of a new Catholic bishop for the Cleveland Diocese. Steeped in tradition, this installation Mass was unlike anything that has come before it. Amid a pandemic, everything is different and everyone wore masks…
Catholic health care worker says she was dismissed after objecting to certain procedures (Catholic Sentinel) Before Megan Kreft was hired, an administrator at her clinic reached out asking which services she’d perform. On the list were vasectomies and inserting intrauterine devices, as well as prescribing hormonal contraception and emergency contraception. “I told my manager these service violated my religious beliefs and conscience,” said Kreft…
Groups criticize honor planned for AG Barr (CNS) The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and the Catholic Mobilizing Network said they strongly object to an award the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast organizers plan to present to U.S. Attorney General William Barr during the annual breakfast, which is to be livestreamed Sept. 23 from Washington. In separate statements, the organizations said Barr, a Catholic, should not be honored because as attorney general, he directed the federal government in July 2019 to resume the execution of prisoners on federal death row…
Family expecting 14th child pulls together in faith (Catholic Register) The thought of 14 children would be inconceivable for most couples these days but for Carissa and Patrick Douglas it’s a dream come true. On their third date after meeting in June 2001 at a preparation retreat for Pope John Paul II’s 2002 World Youth Day visit to Toronto, Patrick asked how many children Carissa wanted. Hesitant to confess she hoped to have a dozen, she offered him two answers. “As many children as God will trust me with,” she said. As he hugged her tight, she also whispered, “The other answer is 12.” “You won’t believe this, but I’ve always wanted 14 kids,” he told her…
Pope: it is impossible to bear the loss of a child without God’s help (CNS) Without God’s help, it is impossible to bear the tragic loss of a young life, Pope Francis said. “Every tragic death brings with it great pain. But when it snatches (the lives of) five adolescents and a young mother, it is immense, unbearable without God’s help,” he told members of the victims’ families Sept. 12. Five teenagers ranging from 14 to 16 years of age and a 39-year-old woman accompanying her daughter died in the early hours of Dec. 8, 2018, at a nightclub in the Italian town of Corinaldo, near the Adriatic seaport city of Ancona. Almost 200 people were injured at the nightclub…
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