Pope Francis advises priests that weakness is a chance for encounter with God, and not something they should try to overcome by their own strength. This article from Catholic News Agency has more.
During an interview ahead of Memorial Day 2021, Archbishop Broglio said the “first thing” George Washington asked for “when he accepted his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army was that there be chaplains." Read more in this article from National Catholic Register.
Msgr. Gregory Gordon has been appointed an auxiliary bishop of Las Vegas, and in this article from Catholic News Agency, he talks about the inspiration of John Paul II that led him to the priesthood.
This article from Catholic World Report helps us appreciate why we call a priest “father” and why the priesthood really is a sacrament requiring a solemn vow to God and to the Church.
Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare was shot in both legs when two armed men fired multiple bullets at him after breaking into his room at the priests’ residence at Holy Family Cathedral in Rumbek in the early hours of April 26. The Bishop-elect is offering his pain for the purification of his South Sudanese diocese. Read more in this article by The National Catholic Register.
Fr. Livinius Esomchi Nnamani was ordained to the priesthood in his hospital room on Holy Thursday and died of leukemia 23 days later. Read more about this extraordinary priest in this article from Catholic News Agency.
Pope Francis ordained nine new priests, marking the Church's World Day of Vocations. Read more about this story.
French Catholic bishops have approved the opening of the beatification cause of a little-known-but-quietly-influential Dominican priest, Father Marie-Étienne Vayssière (1864-1940). Read more in this article from the National Catholic Register.
Cameroon’s Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi on April 3 at the age of 91. The archbishop-emeritus of Douala was the only Cameroonian cardinal, and active in the country’s church and political scene to the very end of his life. Tumi had been hospitalized for three weeks and died on the evening of Good Friday. Read more about the Cardinal in this article from Crux.
A Catholic priest in Nigeria is recovering after a week-long kidnapping ordeal. Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, a priest of the Diocese of Warri in Delta State, was freed on March 21. Catholic News Agency has the rest of the story.
