Focus on Faith

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

First reading: 2 Kgs 4:42-44
Second reading: Eph 4:1-6
Gospel: Jn 6:1-15

Highlighting the importance and gifts of older people has been a constant refrain throughout Pope Francis’ ministry.

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: Jer 23:1-6
Second reading: Eph 2:13-18
Gospel: Mk 6:30-34

The U.S. bishops will focus work over the next three years on catechesis on the Eucharist.

In many countries, hundreds or thousands of cases of clerical sexual abuse have made the need for conversion painfully obvious and have led to a reckoning with how power is viewed, exercised and protected within the Church.

An understanding of the importance of the Eucharist is seen as key to some Catholics returning to in-person Mass for the first time in more than a year.

A new apostolate of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., has an initiative to accompany women in the Hispanic community.

“The Gospel tells us to care for the least among us. In our society one way to do this that makes a real difference is to look at how people are treated in the workplace,” says Bailey Ziegler, human resources director for the diocese.