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November 23, 2011

Speakers push for reauthorization of US religious freedom commission

WASHINGTON – Current and past members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom urged Congress Nov. 17 to keep the rights-monitoring agency alive and said its work must be given higher priority in foreign policy.
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November 23, 2011

Pope’s critique of global economic system resurfaces in Africa

VATICAN CITY – A few minutes after landing in Africa, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a stern warning against the “unconditional surrender to the law of the market or that of finance” in Africa and throughout the global economic system.
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November 23, 2011

Pope expresses concern over Africa’s illiteracy, educational crisis

VATICAN CITY – In his document on the church in Africa, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the educational crisis on the continent, calling high illiteracy rates “a scourge on par with that of pandemics.”
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November 23, 2011

New Roman Missal includes 17 additions to Proper of Saints

WASHINGTON - Along with the more noticeable changes taking place in the third edition of the Roman Missal come more subtle ones, like the addition of 17 saints on the U.S. calendar.
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November 23, 2011

Revised Roman Missal binds Catholics across a 2,000-year history

WASHINGTON – When the third edition of the English-language version of the Roman Missal is implemented at Advent, it will mark the continuing evolution of the eucharistic liturgy that began in the earliest days of the church.
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November 23, 2011

Missal changes amount to dozens of short, new phrases for congregation

WASHINGTON – When the first Sunday of Advent rolls around Nov. 27 and English-language Masses in the United States are all supposed to follow the updated language in the third edition of the Roman Missal, people’s tongues will undoubtedly trip over some of the changes.
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November 23, 2011

(Audio) Bishop Zarama, of Atlanta, tells teens to text God at NCYC

Although he admitted that he often has trouble speaking English, Colombian-born Bishop Luis Zarama, an auxiliary of Atlanta won over the crowd of 23,000 teens at NCYC in mid-November with his keynote talk one night. Hear him talk to young people now, encouraging them to not only text their friends, but text God as well.
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November 23, 2011

Mid-Atlantic Congress announces scholarships

Co-chairs Paul Henderson, board member of the Association of Catholic Publishers, and Father John Hurley, executive director of the Department of Evangelization, announced that 50 scholarships donated by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management are available to cover the cost of the registration fee for qualified participants at the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Congress for Pastoral...
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November 23, 2011

New Jersey bishops call for ‘action agenda’ to address rising poverty

TRENTON, N.J. – Poor people in New Jersey number in the hundreds of thousands and yet “they are often invisible to us,” said the state’s Catholic bishops in a Nov. 21 statement on the growing rate of poverty.
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November 23, 2011

The challenge of enculturation, a look from Hispanic millennials

On Oct. 24, the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) published a survey highlighting the struggles of Hispanic Catholic Millennials. The report described the difference between Hispanic millennials (making up 45 percent of the millennial generation of U.S. Catholics) and “non-Hispanic” millennials. Key differences between the two groups were largely related to differences in education and economics.
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November 22, 2011

Audio of Tom Booth preparing NCYC for “Holy” and “Amen”

One of the amazing side benefits of being a reporter is that you record history when you don’t even know history is happening before your eyes. Tom Booth, composer of “Mass of Life” arrangements, led worship with that music for the last time this past weekend during NCYC’s final Mass. Earlier today, I reported that...
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November 22, 2011

Tom Booth considering revising his Mass of Life for new translation

One of the great joys of covering the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) was meeting Tom Booth, the musician and composer who led worship during the conference’s final Mass. Tom wrote the “Mass of Life,” which was used for the final time in its current incarnation during the NCYC’s closing Mass. The new Missal translation...
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