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Boston, Thursday 10th of October 2024

Jenna Marie Cooper

Why did God send Lucifer down to earth?

Deacon Greg Kandra

Scripture Reflection for Oct. 13, 2024, Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lucia A. Silecchia

Dressing up for Ordinary Time

Father Robert M. O'Grady

Readers

Maureen Crowley Heil

World Mission Sunday: A Universal Day of Celebration!

Scott Hahn

What God has joined

Catholic Charities USA launches Hurricane Milton relief fund

From on high: A rare glimpse from the top of St. Peter's baldachin

Ahead of Hurricane Milton, St. Petersburg priest checks in with neighbors

Synod seeks to expand consultations on women's ministry, diaconate

Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates

Young Catholic baker and dairy farmer fall in love at local market in St. Paul, Minn.

Attack in rectory a 'turning point' in faith, says Philadelphia priest

Cardinal-designate says God, and the pope, work in mysterious ways

Some new cardinals-designate from 'peripheries' were already in Rome

Holy Spirit's gifts can guide the work of law, homilist says at annual Red Mass

Catholic Charities USA launches Hurricane Milton relief fund

Oct. 9 2024
GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- As Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida just days after Hurricane Helene, Catholic Charities USA has launched a dedicated disaster relief...

From on high: A rare glimpse from the top of St. Peter's baldachin

Oct. 9 2024
JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- More than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica, but...

Ahead of Hurricane Milton, St. Petersburg priest checks in with neighbors

Oct. 9 2024
TOM TRACY, OSV NEWS

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (OSV News) -- A St. Petersburg priest who is also president of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors took time out...

Synod seeks to expand consultations on women's ministry, diaconate

Oct. 9 2024
JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican group studying the question of women's ministry, including the ordination of women to the diaconate, will expand its...

Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates

Oct. 9 2024
PAULINA GUZIK, OSV NEWS

ROME (OSV News) -- As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities and subsequent Israel-Hamas...

Young Catholic baker and dairy farmer fall in love at local market in St. Paul, Minn.

Oct. 9 2024
DAVE HRBACEK, OSV NEWS

CHATFIELD, Minn. (OSV News) -- As slivers of September sunlight spilled into a dark and dusty dairy barn near Chatfield, Bridgette Fink threw a bunch of...

Renovations underway at St. John's to ensure seminary's future

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRIGHTON -- In the 99-year-old refectory of St. John's Seminary in Brighton, a cavernous hall with chandeliers hanging from the high ceiling and Italian...

St. Leonard's Parish honors immigrant legacy with art installation

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Hundreds of people filled the peace garden of St. Leonard of Port Maurice Parish in Boston's North End on Sept. 29 for the dedication of...

Annual Lawn Party celebrates Pope St. John XXIII Seminary's unique mission

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

WESTON -- People often ask Deacon John Williams if his two combat deployments to Iraq were what inspired him to become a priest. They're right, he...

Archdiocese to host Vocations Day retreat Oct. 19

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- Father Michael Zimmerman, assistant vocations director for the Archdiocese of Boston, believes that every vocation is a "path to Heaven." "Our...

Needham, Brookline Catholic schools receive National Blue Ribbon Award

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- Two Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Boston have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education, the department...

Incardination process bolsters archdiocese's multicultural ministry

Oct. 4 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- Father Marcos T. Pena knows how hard it can be for people from other countries to adjust to life in the U.S. Father Pena is the administrator...

Fieles de Raleigh se esfuerzan por acompañar a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes

Sep. 8 2024
MARIA-PIA NEGRO CHIN, OSV NEWS

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Compartan el Evangelio con alegría, dice el Papa a los trabajadores eclesiásticos de Indonesia

Sep. 8 2024
POR CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

YAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) -- La llamada cristiana a compartir el Evangelio no consiste en tratar de ganar conversos a toda costa, sino en vivir de una manera...

Subcomité de Asuntos Hispanos de la USCCB lanza kit de recursos sobre comunidades y ministerios hispanos/latinos

Sep. 8 2024
MARIETHA GóNGORA V., OSV NEWS

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- El Secretariado de Diversidad Cultural en la Iglesia de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos (USCCB)...

Un juez detiene la norma de Biden que ofrece a los cónyuges e hijos de ciudadanos estadounidenses una vía para legalizar su estatus

Aug. 28 2024
POR GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Un juez federal ha detenido una política de inmigración que ofrece protecciones a los cónyuges e hijastros no ciudadanos de...

Papa Francisco: Repeler a los migrantes es un 'pecado grave'

Aug. 28 2024
, POR JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Trabajar para alejar a los migrantes de la perspectiva de paz y seguridad en un nuevo país es "un pecado grave", dijo...

El Papa reza para que María proteja a los cristianos perseguidos en Nicaragua

Aug. 28 2024
POR JUSTIN MCLELLAN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Mientras la Iglesia Católica y los cristianos en general experimentan una intensa persecución en Nicaragua, el Papa...

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