Should we hold hands or not during the Our Father?
The Field Hospital: When it comes to the Lord's Prayer during Mass, people are divided over whether or not it's right to hold hands.
Parish
Parish roundup: LGBT Catholics; miles for immigrants; consolidations
The Field Hospital: Catholic/LGBT relations are changing, but not everywhere; parishioners march 52 miles for immigrant rights; Montreal Archdiocese requires fingerprinting; the benefits of short homilies.
Friends from seminary days gather at Redemptorist center to bury friend's ashes
The Field Hospital: In the hills above Tucson, Arizona, at the Redemptorist Renewal Center, our group of priests, former priests and seminarians gather to bury our friend's ashes.
Parish roundup: Memphis shakeup; muscle cars for vocations
The Field Hospital: Nearly two-thirds of the Memphis Diocese's active priests are being reassigned; California parish remembers Orlando victims; altar goes to synagogue.
The future of the priesthood looks more hopeful
NCR Today: No one would accuse the latest crop of seminarians and newly ordained as being wildly liberal, but change is evident, especially in the area of social justice.
Detroit wraps up synod with plan to 'Unleash the Gospel'
Archbishop Vigneron outlines results of Detroit's archdiocesan synod -- "a project of a generation" -- while in Springfield, Illinois, and Burlington, Vermont, the synod process is just beginning.
Gary Diocese's first synod hopes to 'move the mission of the church'
After 18 months of work, synod participants in Gary Diocese aim for increased leadership from younger generation and a focus on spreading Catholic social teaching as they build out implementation plans.
What will future houses of worship look like?
Over the past few decades the concept of a “church” has been shifting, some might even say radically transforming, because of big changes in people’s attitudes about religion.
Francis effect infuses St. Augustine in Philly
The Field Hospital: Parish organizes study of Pope Francis' documents and feeds off the new positive outlook he has inspired in the city, putting his words into action.
Parish roundup: traditionalist priest resigns; ways to welcome LGBT Catholics
The Field Hospital: Is it time to re-think the geographical parish? Another merger in Connecticut; parish closure leaves a cemetery; resignation in North Carolina didn't please "St. John's Church in Exile"
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July 14-27, 2017
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