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Cardinal Sarah: ‘We must return to the Eucharist’
Cardinal Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, says Mass in the London Oratory for the Sacra Liturgia conference, July 6, 2016. Credit: Lawrence OP via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s dicastery for liturgy and sacraments, sent a letter... Read more -
San Francisco Catholics plan Eucharistic processions to ‘Free the Mass’
The Archbishop of San Francisco has called Catholics to participate in Eucharistic processions across the city Sept. 20, and to attend socially distant Masses outside city hall - in part to protest the city’s revised limits on public worship. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a memo... Read more -
Wisconsin Supreme Court says Catholic schools can open
Stating local health officials likely do not have legal authority to order closure of schools, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction late Thursday suspending the Dane County health agency’s August and September orders that forced all schools to close classrooms to... Read more -
Double standards for gatherings in San Francisco a source of growing frustration
Earlier this week, the Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, released a statement calling on the city’s Mayor London Breed; Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax; and San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon to “ease unfair restrictions on public... Read more -
Mass return: Wisconsin dioceses lift Sunday dispensation
From this weekend, Catholics living in Wisconsin will once again be required to go to Mass on Sunday, provided they are healthy and not at risk for coronavirus. “With new measures now firmly in place to promote and preserve the safety of those attending public Mass, it is with... Read more -
I Was Hit Hard By COVID-19 — And I’m Still Not Afraid
It was July 27, a fairly normal Monday at the parish. I was up early for the radio show followed by a private Mass. Strangely, my nerves were shot, and I had no appetite. By early afternoon I had a fever of 102.5 and felt horrible. A parishioner friend offered to drive me to the nearby... Read more -
‘The rug was pulled from under us’: Catholics fight Wisconsin county ban on in-person school
Credit: GUNDAM_Ai / Shutterstock. Denver Newsroom, Aug 27, 2020 / 06:01 pm MT (CNA).- Twice a week for three months, the administration of St. Ambrose Academy in Wisconsin met with Dane County public health officials to ensure that they would be ready to reopen at the start of the school... Read more -
Taking precautions, Catholic churches have avoided COVID outbreaks, doctors say
On the feast of the Assumption, August 15, several small groups of people gathered in different parts of the plaza outside San Francisco’s Cathedral of St. Mary. Each group, limited to a dozen people, simultaneously participated in Mass led by a different priest. It was in this way that... Read more -
COVID-19 Pandemic Forces India’s Catholics to Adopt ‘Hindu’ Cremations
Amid increasing deaths from India’s worsening COVID-19 pandemic, the local Church is reluctantly opting for cremation instead of traditional Christian burial for the victims. “Our options are limited. We have had five cremation-burials already, including one yesterday,” Bishop James... Read more -
Holy lockdown! Indian man spends COVID-19 crisis making handwritten Bible
Lockdowns imposed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus have given a lot of people extra time to fill. One person in India decided to create a handwritten copy of the Bible, using standard letter-sized paper and ballpoint pens. Rejin Valson, a 28-years-old who attends St. Antony’s Church in... Read more