On Jan. 14, the Catholic Services Appeal (CSA) hosted its annual kickoff at the Archdiocesan Catholic Center in St. Paul, with about two dozen parish business administrators and pastors among those attending.
U.S. Catholic bishops -- joined by Pope Francis -- are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation's capital claimed dozens of lives.
In his second visit to the Trinity Woods Catholic Retreat Center in Trego, Wisconsin, Bishop Michael Izen was impressed with the campgrounds. He described it as having beautiful landscapes, good accommodations and a good amount of land.
After five years of refusal, the Chinese government has officially recognized Bishop Melchior Shi Hongzhen as bishop of Tianjin, the Vatican said, in what it called "a positive fruit of the dialogue established over the years between the Holy See and the Chinese government."
Since beginning their journeys mid-May, pilgrims on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have braved excessive heat, thunderstorms and wind -- all of it closely monitored by a meteorologist in New Hampshire.
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Over time, the congregation has seen modifications to its areas of responsibilities and how it is configured, and now, Pope Francis said, further change is needed "to give it an approach more suited to the fulfillment of its functions."
Deacon Gregory Woznick, who served parishes in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Diocese of Duluth and in Hawaii, died Sept. 6 at age 91 in Grant.
