Susie Gibbons: Superintendent to Retire After More Than 40 Years in Catholic Education
For retiring superintendent Susie Gibbons, Catholic education has been with her nearly every step of her life. From attending Catholic grade school, high school and college, to teaching, administering, then leading the charge for the fourth largest Catholic school system in the U.S., Gibbons has done it all. Her vocational …
Survey of new priests: Most pray rosary, go to eucharistic adoration, parents stayed married
By Kevin J. Jones Denver, Colo., Apr 26, 2023 / 12:00 pm More than 450 men are set to be ordained priests this year, and the survey of their ordination class shows that the overwhelming majority of priests-to-be were raised Catholic in intact families and individually showed habits of frequent church …
Vatican preparing text for divorced and remarried couples, Cardinal Farrell says
By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Apr 25, 2023 / 15:50 pm The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life is preparing a document that will address divorced and remarried couples at the request of Pope Francis, according to the dicastery’s prefect, Cardinal Kevin Farrell. Farrell mentioned the in-progress document …
Once ‘papabile,’ bishop-maker Cardinal Marc Ouellet retires
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Apr 24, 2023 / 10:30 am Last week, Cardinal Marc Ouellet handed over the reins of the Vatican’s bishop office to Bishop Robert Francis Prevost. Ouellet, 78, has led the Dicastery for Bishops — formerly called the Congregation for Bishops — since 2010. The transition marks …
Pope Francis names new bishop to shepherd Harrisburg Diocese
By Tyler Arnold Washington D.C., Apr 25, 2023 / 14:12 pm Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Bishop Timothy Senior, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, as the next bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Senior, who also serves as the chancellor of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, …
Keep Shining
This is my last Shine On column for The Catholic Telegraph. I was running through my neighborhood over lunchtime during the COVID lockdown three years ago and praying about this column. I asked God what message He wanted to share with the world. There are more gifted writers and certainly …
Little Lil
202305 – little li fan template Little Li’s Monstrance Fan #MakingCatholicMemories Little Li is an unknown child martyr from China who was killed by a communist soldier while trying to receive Holy Communion. After Communist soldiers desecrated her church and scattered the tabernacle’s Holy Eucharist on the sanctuary floor, this …
Do you Remember?
Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? I ask myself this question at least once a week. My oldest is only one year from entering her teens, and already I find myself trying, and often failing, to remember my own experiences at that age—maybe, it’s because …
Busca al Senor
Mayo es un mes de transiciones. Los niños celebran el final del año escolar y el comienzo de las vacaciones de verano. Los estudiantes universitarios regresan a casa o quizás comienzan unas prácticas relacionadas con su área de estudio. Las familias se reúnen para celebrar la Primera Comunión, el Día …
Pope Francis gave a relic of the true cross to King Charles for his coronation
By Peter Pinedo Washington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm Thanks to a gift from Pope Francis to King Charles III, two pieces of the true cross on which Jesus was crucified will lead the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom’s coronation procession May 6. The precious relics have been …
