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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: The Ordination of Robert Katafiasz

Archbishop William E. Lori
December 14, 2018
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Robert, let us regard this joyous day of priestly ordination not as the evening of your life but rather the dawn of a life of priestly service. The reason you requested that this particular Gospel be read at your ordination was precisely because your desire to tend the Lord’s flock, the People of God, to nourish them with the Word of God and to sustain them with the Lord’s Body and Blood.

Father Godswill Agbagwa began as the leader of Frostburg State University’s Catholic Campus Ministry at the start of the fall 2018 semester. (Emily Rosenthal/CR Staff)

Reboot: Frostburg State welcomes new minister, Mass on campus

Emily Rosenthal Alster
December 14, 2018
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“Our young people don’t seem to understand the position of the church, and that makes some of them afraid to engage the secular society in some of these issues,” Father Godswill Agbagwa said. “As they graduate  and go on to the larger society, they can be able to engage their society … stand up for their faith in the public square.”

This creche had been displayed for at least 50 years in Rehoboth Beach, Del. Volunteers from St. Edmond Catholic Church erected the Nativity Dec. 5 in the town square and the city ordered it removed the following day. (CNS photo/courtesy Denise Boswell)

Creche up for one day, then Delaware town’s leaders order its removal

Catholic News Service
December 13, 2018
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A manger scene can make people feel good at Christmas and that’s what Patty Derrick and her friends in Rehoboth Beach were aiming for when they spoke to town leaders about erecting a creche that has been part of the beach town for about a half-century.

Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali star in a scene from the movie "Green Book." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Universal Studios)

Movie Review: ‘Green Book’

Kurt Jensen
December 13, 2018
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“Green Book” (Universal) opens with a singer in the Copacabana nightclub in New York belting out “That Old Black Magic.” Therein lies its flaw. This high-minded saga of race relations in 1962 is hobbled by sentimentality thicker than the marinara sauce which occasionally appears. It doesn’t so much lean into stereotypes as take flying, cringe-worthy leaps.

Forensic workers carry a container with a body at the scene of a shooting Dec. 11 at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, Brazil. Police said Euler Fernando Grandolpho opened fire in the cathedral, killing at least four people and injuring several others before the 49-year-old turned the gun on himself after being shot by police. (CNS photo/Ricardo Lima, Reuters)

Shooting in Brazilian cathedral leaves five dead, four injured

Catholic News Service
December 12, 2018
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A gunman opened fire inside a Brazilian church, killing four people and injuring four others before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Pope Francis leads the 18th meeting of his Council of Cardinals at the Vatican Feb. 13. Seated to the left of the pope are: Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, secretary of the council; Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, coordinator of the council; Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India; Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, retired archbishop of Santiago, Chile; Cardinal George Pell, head of the Secretariat for the Economy. Seated at right are: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state; Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany; Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston; Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo; Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the commission governing Vatican City State. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)

Three cardinals end service on pope’s Council of Cardinals

Carol Glatz
December 12, 2018
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Three members of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals have officially ended their service as papal advisers on the reform of the Roman Curia.

At Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Indianapolis, Karmin Shaw, a student at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, watches as Brian Duane adjusts her lantern Dec. 4 after it had been ignited with the Peace Light, a flame kindled from the place in Bethlehem, West Bank, where Christ was born. Duane is part of a network of volunteers distributing the fire across the country and drove the light from New York City as far west as Denver. (CNS photo/Katie Rutter)

Pilgrimage across U.S. lets peacemaker spread light from Bethlehem

Katie Rutter
December 12, 2018
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Brian Duane’s maroon Subaru had already covered about 1,800 miles when he pulled into the parking lot at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Lafayette Dec. 4.

Participants carry festive flowers during a Dec. 9 celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Archdiocese of Baltimore celebrates Our Lady of Guadalupe

Emily Rosenthal Alster
December 12, 2018
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“She shouldn’t just be (important) for our church, but for all the churches because she appeared in the Americas,” said Father Lewandowski. “What she represents as far as evangelization and a call to follow Christ is important to all people.”

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