While some parishes across the country have fared well throughout the coronavirus pandemic, others have had to furlough staff, lay off employees and cut back on ministries because of sharp declines in weekend collections amid ...
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Deacon Larry Oney of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, founder of Hope and Purpose Ministries, writes that COVID-19 has given the entire Church an opportunity to ...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, Dr. Thomas McGovern looks back on what the Church in the United States has learned about keeping the faithful ...
With the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic approaching, Catholic mom and blogger Bonnie Engstrom writes about the unexpected blessings that the pandemic brought to her family — namely, time together. “My ...
A year after COVID-19 shifted the way parishes have experienced community, clergy and lay experts look at what the Church needs to do once the pandemic is over. Even with the promise that mass vaccinations ...
Sacred music has been part of the Judeo-Christian faith for thousands of years. “It’s part of our story,” Thomas Octave, associate professor of music and chair of fine arts at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, ...
Parishes today are facing a number of growing challenges — from declining Mass attendance and participation in religious education, to financial struggles and aging infrastructure. But across the country, Catholic colleges and universities are doing ...
The director of religious education in a parish can almost be thought of as a Catholic school principal of sorts. In any given year, a parish DRE is responsible for providing a basic religious education ...
Across the country, Catholic colleges and universities are educating the next generation of Catholic school principals, vice principals and high-ranking administrators who will lead Catholic education into the mid 21st century. They will do so ...
The Church’s social teaching, guided by the Gospel and centuries of Christian thought and refined by modern popes and Church scholars, plays a crucial role in the way parishes operate and serve their wider communities. ...