Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year
July 26, 2020
“Cycle A”
Father Clemens D. Manista
Our Mother of Sorrows/St. Peter the Apostle Parish
Centreville, Maryland
Transformation
Through the parables during the last few Sundays, the Lord has been inviting us to consider our response...
CHILDS, Md. — Brother John Carroll, a professed member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for 63 years, died July 22. He celebrated his 81st birthday earlier this month.
Brother Carroll was born in New York City and...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When Father Joseph Hastings, 33, was growing up, he had dreams like most young boys. He wanted to be a basketball player. He thought about being an actor.
He came from a devout Catholic family that spent...
The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association board of directors met July 23 to discuss how the 2020-21 high school sports schedule would look because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but after more than two hours on the topic, no vote was...
One of the staples of the summer, vacation Bible school, is another on the long list of activities affected by COVID-19. But just because parishes aren’t able to gather young people for a week of learning doesn’t mean VBS...
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders and immigrant advocates are criticizing President Donald Trump’s July 21 memorandum to prevent immigrants without legal documentation from being counted in the 2020 census for the redrawing of congressional districts.
The memorandum is expected to face...
VICTORIA, Texas -- About two weeks after having no public Masses, St. Joseph Church in Yoakum started livestreaming on Facebook.
Father Matthew Huehlefeld, the pastor, had an organist, a cantor and two parishioners helping with the streaming.
But they have had...
A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate, leveling a new accusation that he allegedly abused its new client as a...
LIVONIA, Mich. -- They were teachers. A librarian. A director of religious education. A secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The author of a 586-page history of the congregation.
One was an organist. One helped her second-grade class write...