“How wonderful to have all of you here as we celebrate the ordination of our newest auxiliary,” said Archbishop Bernard Hebda, consecrator and celebrant of the Mass. “I’ve never prayed before that we would have a larger Cathedral, but we could have used one today.”
Amid calls for prayer and praise for first responders, officials confirmed that five people were killed in an April 10 mass shooting, Easter Monday morning, in a downtown bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
More than 400 executives at pharmaceutical and biotech companies have signed onto a statement criticizing a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that suspends the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion pill.
St. Michael church in Stillwater was filled with parishioners, visiting bishops and others for a 7 p.m. April 10 vespers service preceding Bishop-elect Michael Izen’s episcopal ordination April 11 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
The letter program isn’t the only aspect of Alexander Marquette’s life touched by Bishop-elect Izen; the bishop-elect was instrumental in Marquette’s early discernment to become a priest.
Instead of presiding over the nighttime Way of the Cross seated atop a hillside overlooking Rome's Colosseum, Pope Francis followed the service from his Vatican residence, spiritually united in prayer with the 20,000 people gathered outside the ancient amphitheater April 7.
Recent studies show that online dating is one of the most popular ways couples meet each other. But some single Catholics are growing disillusioned with the digital world and searching for -- or creating -- other options.
"Nothing should take precedence" over Good Friday -- and that includes the baseball team's home opener, said Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh in an April 5 statement shared after the diocese had received inquiries about a possible dispensation from the fasting and abstinence that is integral to the solemn day.
Wanting to meet potential partners through dating apps like Tinder is "normal," and the church's teaching on sex is "still in diapers," Pope Francis said in a conversation with a group of young people gathered in Rome.
Jerry Wind, 71, vividly remembers driving home from a house party his first year in college after he declared — to himself, aloud — “I don’t want to live this way anymore. This is not freedom.”
