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On the second full day of General Conference voting, delegates fast-tracked a large number of items via the consent calendar. Because consent calendars often contain dozens of items voted upon at once, sometimes it is hard to keep track of what was actually approved. However, the Rev. Gary Graves, secretary of the General […]

Key points: The United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Episcopal Church, leaving a similar move by the Episcopalians needed to clinch the deal. Full communion with the Moravian Church also was announced. The Rev. Jerry Pillay, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, delivered the sermon during morning worship centered on the […]

Senior leaders of the Anglican Communion are gathering in Rome this week for the 2024 Primates’ Meeting. They will engage in prayer, scripture study, and reflection on the Church’s mission, with an opportunity for interfaith dialogue presented by meetings with Pope Francis and Cardinal Grech to discuss synodality. The historic significance of Rome for Christianity […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top policymaking assembly illustrated on Monday the legislative slog the 700-plus delegates are encountering. On the first day of the second and final week of the UMC General Conference in Charlotte, delegates spent hours Monday debating a proposal regarding the total number of African bishops. The debate was […]

Father Vincent Capodanno Catholic Academy 2nd grade students celebrate First Holy Communion at Holy Rosary R.C. Church on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in South Beach. (Owen Reiter for the Staten Island Advance) Father Vincent Capodanno Catholic Academy 2nd grade students celebrate First Holy Communion at Holy Rosary R.C. Church on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in […]

Every Easter, the Church rejoices to welcome more of God’s children home to his Church. Catholics around the archdiocese celebrate with the newly baptized and confirmed, a sign of the ways God continues to work in his Church. This year, in the Archdiocese of Denver, more than 800 such individuals made their way home and […]

COMMENTARY: As we observe a National Eucharistic Revival in the United States and prepare for a national Eucharistic Congress, it’s timely and providential for us to consider John Paul II’s love and teachings on the Eucharist. On April 27, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the canonization of Pope St. John Paul II. It’s hard […]

Leave Hollywood and Bollywood horror flicks aside. Here we bring you some mind-blowing details about the Spanish-language gothic horror film The Communion Girl. Set in the 1980s in Tarragona, this film uses some social themes. Although the story is not very scary, the time period feels quite real. Director Víctor García creates a believable set-up […]

Move to: Previous Day | Next Day Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter Other Commemorations: Our Lady of Good Counsel (OM, CAN); St. Cletus, Pope and Martyr (RM); St. Raphael Arnaiz Baron, Religious (RM) MASS READINGS April 26, 2024 (Readings on USCCB website) Mass Propers for Friday of the […]

Retired U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke decried what he termed the “persecution” of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass during a men’s breakfast event in New York City on April 23. Burke, a former head of the Vatican’s highest court who has taken an increasingly critical tone against Pope Francis over the last decade, also offered his […]