Gina Capellazzi

2 days ago | catholiccourier.com | Greg Kandra |Gina Capellazzi

The Catholic News Service column, "Speak to Me Lord," offers reflections on the Sunday Scripture readings. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec) | Section: Worship & FaithActs 2:1-11Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 341 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 OR Rom 8:8-17Jn 20:19-23We all heard it when we were kids, that dire warning: “Don’t play with fire!” “Stay away from the stove, it’s hot!”This Sunday, though, that goes out the window.

3 days ago | catholiccourier.com | Gina Capellazzi

BOULDER, Colo. (OSV News) — As Boulder residents reeled from a violent attack on peaceful demonstrators June 1 who called for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, area faith leaders expressed sorrow over the attack and urged an end to such violence. The attack was against participants in a weekly walk on a pedestrian mall in downtown Boulder sponsored by the city’s chapter of Run for Their Lives.

3 days ago | catholiccourier.com | Maria Wiering |Gina Capellazzi

(OSV News) — Catholics are encouraged to turn out in strong numbers for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage‘s eucharistic processions to counter the growing number of anti-Catholic protesters who have afflicted the route’s public events from the first week. “We need to be there. We need to show up for Jesus,” said Jason Shanks, president of National Eucharistic Congress Inc. “This is the Way-of-the-Cross type of pilgrimage.

3 days ago | catholiccourier.com | Gina Capellazzi |Jim Mosley

Spontaneous. That’s how Father Joseph Martuscello describes the trip that landed him in St. Peter’s Square as Chicago native Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope May 8, taking the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American pope. “I didn’t know when the conclave would begin, but I just did the math,” the parochial vicar of the parishes of St. Mary, Ss. Mary and Martha, and Our Lady of the Snow in Auburn explained.

4 days ago | catholiccourier.com | Kate Scanlon |Gina Capellazzi

NEW YORK (OSV News) — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York urged Empire State lawmakers to reject legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide. The New York Assembly April 29 passed a bill that would allow a terminally ill adult with a prognosis of six months or less to request from a physician a medication that would hasten his or her death, which the state’s Catholic bishops oppose.