Gomez: Nation’s leaders must now ‘come together’ with election of new president
With Joe Biden now elected as the nation’s 46th president, it is “time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
News organizations project Biden win; second Catholic elected U.S. president
Horns blared near the White House just before noon Nov. 7 as major U.S. news organizations projected Democrat Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, making him the second Catholic in the country’s history to be elected to the nation’s highest office.
Blessed McGivney: Model parish priest with ‘zeal’ for Gospel, serving faithful
By Julie Asher | Catholic News Service Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers...
All Souls’ Day 2020 is poignant reminder of COVID-19
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The feast of All Souls’ Day, when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, has weighted significance this year when so many have died of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s restrictions have...
‘It is an attack on everyone’: Bishops react to Nice basilica murders
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bishops in the United States and around the world expressed condolences after three people were murdered before Mass Oct. 29 in the basilica in Nice, France. French police have confirmed they are treating the killings...
