A Nebraska priest has died after being attacked in the rectory of his parish in the early morning before he was to celebrate Mass for the Second Sunday of Advent.
Students at Creighton University are awaiting a decision from the school's president after the campus last week voted overwhelmingly to recommend it divest its endowment from fossil fuels.
As the fifth anniversary of the environmental encyclical Laudato Si' approaches, Catholics are working to turn the papal teaching into realizable actions and to make a more concerted effort to care for creation within the U.S. Church.
The Field Hospital: For the past 25 years, the Institute for Priestly Formation has helped thousands of priests and seminarians from around the United States to experience God's love and pass it on to their flocks.
The Field Hospital: Volunteers provide free tax return assistance to people in the Diocese of Albany; Atlanta parishes raise awareness of dangers of pornography; flooding traps Nebraska parishioners; and more parish news.
Just Catholic: Media help convince us the sky is falling. What once was a slow drip of bad stories, now is a torrent washing away all other church news. And that is the problem. There is no other news.
In releasing the Omaha Archdiocese's list of 38 clergy accused since 1978 of criminal sexual misconduct, Archbishop George Lucas acknowledged the report "with sorrow" and knowing it would "cause a great deal of pain and anger."
