The editorial board for Our Sunday Visitor writes that for our priests, the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic can be even more acute. Not only are they literally separated from their flocks, they are now ...
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, praised Pope Francis for his Aug. 4 letter to priests in which the pontiff expressed "gratitude to all those priests who faithfully and generously spend their lives ...
Laity and clergy must help each other in their common mission
I can’t speak to whether or not letters to the editor were included in the first issue of Our Sunday Visitor when it rolled off of Father John Francis Noll’s printing press back in 1912, ...
“No words I can use would be too strong to state that the Catholic priesthood needs prayer and sacrifice as never before since Calvary,” wrote the late Jesuit Father John Hardon in “The Value of ...
Church officials are urging Catholics to continue to oppose a California bill that would force priests to disclose information about child sexual abuse that they hear in the sacrament of confession.
In his column this week, Monsignor Campion looks at the history of the Titanic, and of the priests that lost their lives as they ministered to the people aboard, most immigrants in third class, who ...
Just as Jesus always sought to be with the people to serve, teach and heal them, so, too, must priests always be in the midst of God's people, "pouring ourselves out" for them, Pope Francis ...
Father Claude Grou, rector of St. Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, was stabbed during a Mass March 22. The motive for the attack remains unknown.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The percentage of Catholics in the world has remained steady, while the number of priests has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to Vatican statistics. Meanwhile, the ...
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