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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Mark Pattison
9 hours agoA new stadium battle is brewing on both sides of the state line as Kansas and Missouri pitch competing proposals to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in the metro. Kansas is offering a plan that could cover up to 70% of stadium project costs using STAR bonds, a financing mechanism that lets future tax revenues pay off public debt.
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1 month ago | 
ncronline.org | Mark Pattison |Sophia Park
Bishop Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, in September 2024. McKnight is now archbishop-elect for the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas. (OSV News/ The Catholic Missourian/Jay Nies) Last fall, Bishop Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, faced a backlash after he decreed that a dozen hymns could no longer be used at churches in his diocese.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Mark Pattison |Kate Scanlon
Faith leaders are raising their voices in both protest and prayer over the thousands of federal government employees who have been fired or put on leave since President Donald Trump took office.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Grazie Christie |Robert Barron |Mark Pattison |With Grace
It’s clear that America is in the process of reassessing, and probably revolutionizing, its public health policy. That’s the expectation after the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. He brings a famously jaundiced eye to the government’s cozy relationship with pharmaceutical companies, to the politics of medical research, and — most notoriously — to vaccine schedules.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Justin Mclellan |Robert Barron |Mark Pattison |Scott Hahn
The morning after suffering two acute episodes of respiratory crisis, Pope Francis no longer needed oxygen through a breathing mask, the Vatican said. The crises March 3 led doctors to again put the pope on "noninvasive mechanical ventilation" -- a treatment that delivers air with added oxygen through a tightly fitted face mask and using positive pressure to assist breathing.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
catholicreview.org | Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — As worshippers entered the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington for the noon Mass March 2, they saw at the base of the sanctuary a large portrait of a bespectacled, smiling Pope Francis, with a vase in front of the portrait bearing gold and white flowers — the colors of the Vatican flag. The pope’s health was the prime focus of the Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio to the United States.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Mark Pattison
Maybe "All Are Welcome" after all. Less than a week after it had taken effect, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, rescinded his decree that blacklisted a dozen liturgical hymns from use in the diocese, the most popular of them being "All Are Welcome" by Marty Haugen, the diocese told the National Catholic Reporter Nov. 6. In its place, McKnight issued a new decree calling for a consultative process in the selection of liturgical music for the central Missouri diocese.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Mark Pattison |Dan Schutte |Luis Gonzalez |Luis González |Michael Sean Winters
For generations, Catholics had to navigate their way around the Index of Forbidden Books. Now, some Catholics will have to do the same with the Index of Forbidden Music, Liturgical Division. Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City decreed Oct. 28 that a dozen hymns no longer be used at churches in his mid-Missouri diocese.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
international.la-croix.com | Mark Pattison
To find the common good to help them vote in the upcoming U.S. election, one may want to start by looking at the Latino voter. According to figures released from the 2020 U.S. Census, half of all first-time voters will be Latinos. "In Rome, religious are meeting to talk about listening, walking together in discernment,” said Aleja Hertzler-McCain, a reporter for Religion News Service.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
international.la-croix.com | Mark Pattison
In politics, business, and other areas of public life, optics are a significant concern. Case in point: Missouri’s execution of Marcellus Williams on September 26, despite pleas for clemency from civil society advocates – including the prosecutor from Williams’ murder trial – fell on deaf ears.
