What does the Eucharist mean to you?

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What does the Eucharist mean to you?

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You don’t have to believe in Marian apparitions. But I do.

James Martin, S.J.May 10, 2024

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters)

Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on apparitions, including Marian apparitions, that is, reports from individuals or groups that the Virgin Mary has appeared to them. There are many kinds of apparitions and visions, but Marian ones predominate in the Catholic Church.

The last major Vatican document addressing the topic is the “Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy,” issued in 2001. It quotes a line from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which sums up the church’s stance with admirable clarity: “Throughout the ages, there have been so-called private revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith” (No. 67).

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord: Not absence, but mission

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Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord: Not absence, but mission

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Federal court says Catholic school has right to employ teachers who uphold church teaching on marriage

Catholic News Herald | OSV NewsMay 09, 2024

This is a file photo of Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina. A federal appeals court ruled May 8, 2024, in favor of the Diocese of Charlotte, saying religious schools have the freedom to hire schoolteachers who will uphold their religious beliefs. A former substitute teacher had sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the Charlotte Diocese for not calling him back to work as a substitute teacher after he entered a same-sex union and posted about it on Facebook. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic News Herald)

(OSV News) -- A federal appeals court May 8 ruled in favor of the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, protecting religious schools’ freedom to hire schoolteachers who will uphold their religious beliefs.

In Billard v. Diocese of Charlotte, a former substitute teacher sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the diocese for not calling him back to work as a substitute teacher after he entered a same-sex union and posted about it on Facebook. That contradicted Catholic teachings about marriage and violated the diocese’s employment policy, disqualifying him to assist the school in fulfilling its mission, the school and diocese argued.

Students find joy in justice

Rejoice in Revolution

Students find joy in justice

Ariana Orozco

May 10, 2024

The encampment at Columbia University (Wikimedia Commons)

“Where you go I will go my friend / Where you go I will go / Your people are my people / Your people are mine…” A nightly song hummed on as hundreds of Columbia University students linked arms on the school’s south lawn to protest the university’s investments in Israel. As some students sang adjusted lyrics from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible, others performed a Palestinian dabkeh dance, banged Malian djembe drums, and scraped Dominican güiras. It can be tempting to believe media declarations that these protestors were chaotic or malicious; but doing so misses the joyous spirit that arises from making oneself a neighbor with the people of Gaza.

10 May 2024, The Tablet

Pope Francis proclaims Year of Jubilee themed around ‘hope’

by Ruth Gledhill

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“For everyone, may the Jubilee be a moment of genuine, personal encounter with the Lord Jesus,” Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis yesterday proclaimed a new Jubilee year, to start in December, and themed around “hope”.

 

Promulgating the Bull of Indiction at St Peter’s in Rome, titled Spes non confundit or “Hope does not disappoint”, the Pope said: “Everyone knows what it is to hope. In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring.

 

“Even so, uncertainty about the future may at times give rise to conflicting feelings, ranging from confident trust to apprehensiveness, from serenity to anxiety, from firm conviction to hesitation and doubt. Often we come across people who are discouraged, pessimistic and cynical about the future, as if nothing could possibly bring them happiness. For all of us, may the Jubilee be an opportunity to be renewed in hope.” 

Your letters: Bishop Gumbleton, Word on Fire, women's ordination

 

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Your letters: Bishop Gumbleton, Word on Fire, women's ordination

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Women and synodality centered in California with Cynthia Bailey Manns

 May 9, 2024

Women and synodality centered in California with Cynthia Bailey Manns

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