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Archdiocese of Washington cancels Youth Rally, Mass for Life held at March for Life events

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 15, 2022 / 07:16 am The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., announced that its annual Youth Rally and Mass for Life, which both typically take place in conjunction with the national March for Life in Washington D.C., have been canceled. “After a consultation process that …
Arrest made in vandalism of Cardinal Dolan’s residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 10, 2022 / 17:00 pm An arrest has been made in a two-day-long vandalism spree in October that included an attack on Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Juan Velez was arrested by the New York Police Department’s …
Steubenville-Columbus diocesan merger halted one week before vote at U.S. bishops’ meeting

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 9, 2022 / 10:30 am Diocese of Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey Monforton announced Monday that a proposed merger with the Diocese of Columbus will be put on hold. Announced in early October citing several demographic and vocational concerns, the proposed merger between the two dioceses brought a …
Sunday Mass obligation re-instituted for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago

by Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 8, 2022 / 15:17 pm For Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Sunday Mass will become obligatory once again after a general dispensation was granted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The restoration of the obligation comes more than a year and …
So, about all those swear words in ‘Father Stu’: A cleaned-up version is on the way!

by Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 5, 2022 / 10:00 am A new PG-13 version of Mark Wahlberg’s latest Catholic film, “Father Stu,” is coming back to the big screen Dec. 9 with an aim at widening the audience to include more families with children, according to the movie’s …
Bishop Barron, expressing ‘outrage,’ vows to reconsecrate vandalized cemetery

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Nov 3, 2022 / 13:03 pm Bishop Robert Barron has pledged to reconsecrate a Catholic Minnesota cemetery vandalized on Halloween night with satanic and vulgar graffiti. “On this feast of All Souls, when the Church honors our beloved dead, I would like to express my …
‘Miracle’ caught on video: Priest escapes unharmed when SUV hurdles his car

by Joe Bukuras Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 1, 2022 / 14:10 pm Eighty-seven-year-old Father John Bok was a physics teacher earlier in his life, but he just can’t wrap his head around the physics of how another car hurdled his own on his way to celebrate Sunday Mass in October. …
COVID setback: Public school students in some grades lost more ground than Catholic school students

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 26, 2022 / 07:45 am The pandemic’s negative effect on learning was more pronounced among fourth- and eighth-graders at public schools than among their Catholic school counterparts, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. The new data comes from The …
Mark Houck: My family’s photo is on Mother Teresa’s tomb

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 17, 2022 / 16:11 pm Mark Houck, the Catholic pro-life father of seven who was arrested last month after a controversial early-morning FBI raid at his home, says Mother Teresa’s nuns in the Missionaries of Charity have placed a photo of his family on …
VIDEO: Pro-abortion vandals caught in the act of spray-painting Michigan church

ny Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Oct 12, 2022 / 16:38 pm A Catholic church in Lansing, Michigan, has released a security video that captured three hooded individuals vandalizing the church Oct. 8 with pro-abortion and anti-Catholic graffiti. The three individuals can be seen approaching the Church of the Resurrection on …