CV NEWS FEED // The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released the National Synthesis for the 2021-2024 Synod, in which a significant number of US Catholics call the Catholic Church to be both a “Safe Harbor” and a place for “Fiery Communion.” The document was released by the USCCB ahead of the final […]
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Mum claims autistic son was called a ‘distraction’ during Holy Communion
A mum has said a “special day” for her and her son was ruined because of how he was treated for having special needs. Hayley Bradley, from Scotland Road, claims her son, Bobby, who has ASD and learning difficulties, was discriminated against during his Holy Communion at Liverpool’s St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. The mum-of-three claims […]
Report: U.S. Catholics ‘desire to rebuild and strengthen our communion’
NEW YORK – To address noticeable tensions, American Catholics want church leaders to foster unity through promoting interculturality and greater co-responsibility, and for them to better articulate church teaching, according to the latest synod synthesis report for the American church. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on May 28 published the “National Synthesis of […]
Bass Communion – The Itself of Itself
Whenever you put an album on for the first time, it doesn’t click with you. That’s the same that had happened to me before. Whether its E.L.O.’s Out of the Blue, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, Keith Tippett’s Blueprint, or Magma’s Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh, they didn’t grab me at first when I heard those albums […]
First, Communion
The first time I read G.K. Chesterton’s 1908 work Orthodoxy, I leaned repeatedly across the aisle of an airplane to share passages with my adult son. Chesterton recalled his days as a rationalist and described how puzzling Catholicism seemed when reading others’ critiques. He concluded that it was an unreasonable religion, being at the same […]
A Step Toward Full Communion with the United Methodist Church
The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church (UMC) are moving toward full communion between the two bodies. The Methodists are moving faster than the Episcopalians. For the Methodists, the deal is done. The General Conference approved full communion April 30, with 95 percent of the conference in agreement. It’s more complicated on the Episcopal […]
Florida priest admits biting woman as last-resort defense to save the Eucharist
Father Fidel Rodriguez, the 66-year-old parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in St. Cloud, Florida, was questioned by police following an altercation during Pentecost Sunday Mass May 19. In body camera footage of that questioning obtained by OSV News from the St. Cloud Police Department, Rodriguez explained to officers in detail how he had bitten […]
First Communion time in Almeria « Euro Weekly News
19 children took their First Communion in Albox Credit: Parroquia Concepción de Albox Facebook Despite all of the changes that have taken place in Spain since the death of Franco, one tradition continues to be strong. Every May (and sometimes June), it is time for Catholic boys and girls who are aged around eight to […]
Florida priest admits biting woman as last-resort defense to save the Eucharist- Detroit Catholic
(OSV News) — A Florida priest has admitted to biting a woman who attempted to receive holy Communion in what he — and eyewitnesses — said was an aggressive, desecrating manner. Father Fidel Rodriguez, the 66-year-old parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in St. Cloud, Florida, was questioned by police following an altercation during […]
On The Priest Who Bit A Would-be Communicant
image via Pixabay All week, the people have been clamoring about a priest who bit a woman trying to receive Communion at Mass. I was bemused because I kept seeing that headline in isolation and wondering what on earth was going on. Everything about the story seemed bizarre. People were saying conflicting things about it. […]