Catholic News

• Fire at Tacoma parish; cause unknown (Tacoma News Tribune)
  Since May 2020, there have been 100 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States.
• 'Renew your mission in listening love for young people,' Pope tells Salesian sisters (Vatican News)
  On October 22, Pope Francis addressed the participants in the general chapter of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.
• Melkite Patriarch: The Gospel can be proclaimed only with 'a force that is not ours' (Fides)
  “In the present time, in which faith ‘is dying out in many regions of the world,’ one cannot become and remain Christian by virtue of human strategies and formation courses,” Melkite Patriarch Youssef Absi emphasized during the consecration of an archbishop.Headquartered in Damascus, the Melkite Catholic Church (CNEWA profile) is an Eastern Catholic church in […]
• Papal message pays tribute to Maria Montessori (Vatican Press Office)
  The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sent a papal message to an international conference marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maria Montessori (Encyclopaedia Britannica article). The message praised Montessori as a “distinguished educator, among the most eminent figures of 20th-century culture, who left a profound mark on the field of education […]