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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Ann Rodgers |Robert Brennan |Heather King
COVID at 5 Vol. 10 | No. 6 | March 21, 2025 On the cover: The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic was a transformative event for the world, changing almost every aspect of people’s lives while causing institutions to rethink their mission. What about the Catholic Church?
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Charles Collins |Kurt Jensen |David Agren |Ann Rodgers
Marking Saint Patrick’s Day the bishops of Ireland encouraged the faithful to pray for peace in the world, especially in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan. Saint Patrick is the patron of Ireland, and his feast is a solemnity on the island to which he brought the Christian faith in 5th century. It is a holy day of obligation in the country.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kurt Jensen |David Agren |Ann Rodgers |Charles Collins
Four pro-life activists, including two pardoned by President Donald Trump in January for earlier convictions under the FACE Act, were found guilty of trespassing March 14 for their 2019 "rescue" at a New Jersey abortion clinic. However, they will not face jail time. Instead, all received 18 months of probation in Madison Joint Municipal Court in Madison, New Jersey, although they won't have to report to a probation officer. Their 30-day sentences for trespassing were suspended.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | David Agren writes |David Agren |Ann Rodgers |Cindy Wooden
Mexico's Catholic leaders prayed for the country's missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound. Families of the missing held a procession March 16 in the town of Teuchitlán, 40 miles west of Guadalajara -- site of the compound -- and later attended a Mass celebrated for the missing.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Ann Rodgers |Cindy Wooden
Pope Francis has approved the next phase of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, launching a three-year implementation process that will culminate in an ecclesial assembly at the Vatican in October 2028.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Ann Rodgers |Mike Cisneros |Kimmy Chacon
What love preserves: A 60-year marriage begins a new chapter after the Eaton Fire Vol. 10 | No. 4 | February 21, 2025 On the cover: Ray and Mary Jo Spano look through a box of love letters from the early 1960s that were saved before their Altadena home burned in the Eaton Fire. Starting on Page 10, Ann Rodgers tells the story of a 60-year marriage built to endure the toughest of trials.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heidi Johnson |Ann Rodgers |Cindy Wooden
“We lost everything in the fire.”Marie, a woman who was volunteering next to me at the Pasadena Elks Lodge to help victims of the Eaton Fire, pulled out her phone and showed me the charred remains of what was once her beautiful home. Her loss, sadness, and shock were real. But even more shocking to me was that Marie was facing her loss by paying it forward to her neighbors and community members who were in the same boat.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Katie Yoder |Ann Rodgers |Cindy Wooden |Scott Hahn
When the recent Los Angeles fires forced the local Capuchin Franciscan friars to evacuate, they sought shelter at the Pasadena Convention Center along with hundreds of others. There, they noticed that people were hungry -- and decided to do something about it. "It became very apparent that there was a need for food," Capuchin Franciscan Father Christopher Iwancio, who runs the friars' "Capuchin Family Kitchen" food truck, told OSV News.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Ann Rodgers |Scott Hahn
In another sign that Pope Francis' stay in Rome's Gemelli hospital will continue for some time, the Vatican announced a substitute presider for the Mass and ordinations as part of the Jubilee of Deacons. In a brief note to journalists Feb. 18, the Vatican said, "Due to the Holy Father's health condition," his appointments had been canceled through Feb. 22.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Ann Rodgers |Scott Hahn |Pablo Kay
As workers at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels set up for OneLife LA – an annual pro-life rally that had been moved from downtown Los Angeles due to wildfire smoke — volunteers wheeled in the 300-pound brass tabernacle that firefighters had recovered a week earlier from the ashes of Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades.
