ver 1,300 groups comprised of more than 28,600 individuals from across the United States joined the Portuguese WYD. The U.S. is among the five largest delegations participating in WYD, which is taking place Aug. 1-6 in Lisbon.
American youth join bishops for National Gathering at World Youth Day
Bishop urges leaders of U.S., other nations to ‘make critically needed’ progress on arms control
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee called on Catholics and all people of goodwill to pray that the leaders of the United States and other nations around the globe “who govern the control” of nuclear weapons “will earnestly seek to make critically needed progress on arms control.”
Honored by Knights, Sisters of Life founding superior shares ‘secret of loving’ behind a culture of life
It was one of the most important advertisements ever published in a Catholic newspaper: “Help Wanted: Sisters of Life.” The five simple words led a 1989 column penned by New York Cardinal John J. O’Connor — and within two years, eight women took up the call to be emissaries of Jesus Christ’s life-giving love as the first ever “Sisters of Life.”
Photos of the Week July 28, 2023
Photos featured this week include the Tekakwitha Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly and more.
Global synod faces challenge of getting pastoral care to divorced Catholics in parishes
The forthcoming 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops — otherwise known as the Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis convenes in Rome this October — will examine ways to accompany divorced and remarried Catholics.
Pope Francis appoints Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula as next archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, as the next archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa. Archbishop-designate Zinkula’s installation Mass is scheduled for Oct. 18.
WYD Ukrainian Catholics want world to know ‘what Ukraine’s sacrifice really means’
As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, young Ukrainian Catholics from the U.S. are traveling to World Youth Day with a mix of hope, excitement and urgency.
‘Never, never lose faith,’ says man whose miraculous cure as child led to St. Kateri Tekakwitha’s canonization
Child’s family believes saint’s intercession cured life-threatening infection.