Before their Nov. 17 vote to approve a National Eucharistic Congress for 2024 and their choice of the city to host it, Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson told his fellow prelates gathered in Baltimore, "If you give us the green flag to this project, we'll be ready with the checkered flag."
Church leaders and parishes offered prayers for the five people who died and dozens more who were injured, including a Catholic priest, church parishioners and Catholic school students, when an SUV plowed through spectators watching a Christmas parade.
The expansive parking lot just north of Mall of America in Bloomington will soon be transformed into a festive holiday experience highlighting Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration suspending implementation of COVID-19 vaccination requirements in the workplace effective Nov. 17 because of legal challenges, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, its parishes and schools are doing the same.
From Haiti to Afghanistan, Catholic Relief Services has demonstrated how it has worked with other Catholic agencies as "one church" to respond to debilitating humanitarian crises around the world, CRS leaders told U.S. bishops gathered for their fall general assembly.
Nativity of Mary Church in Bloomington is home to a special display of artwork undertaken after the death of George Floyd that emphasizes the diversity of saints and the unity of the faith they shared.
The synodal process the church is entering into is meant to show that "no one is unimportant in this time of listening," Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, told his fellow bishops gathered for their annual fall general assembly.