Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.
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The end of an era for the Sisters of Charity of New York
The Sisters of Charity of New York is on a path to completion after numbers have dwindled in recent years. But the sisters are facing trying times with joy.
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After invalidly baptizing thousands, Arizona priest now performs a do-over of the sacrament
As the Rev. Andrés Arango poured holy water over the heads of a dozen people on Thursday evening, it represented the beginning of a new ministry for him: healing and helping those he invalidly baptized.
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Thousands of baptisms presumed invalid due to one priest’s wording error
The Rev. Andres Arango’s error was in saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.”
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Catholic school enrollment makes largest increase in 50 years
Enrollment in Catholic schools in the United States rose 3.8 percent from the previous academic year, rebounding from a sharp drop caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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New York Catholic Church in Covid-19 epicenter leads congregants out of sorrow
More than 100 congregants of the parish in the mostly Latino Corona neighborhood of Queens died of COVID-19, many of them in the early days of the pandemic.
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Survey: U.S. college students are learning less about religion
U.S. college students spend significant time learning about people of different races, political affiliations and sexual orientations.
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Young priest loses mentor, then his father to coronavirus
Through the crisis, he has advised the church youth group on Zoom, celebrated Mass in English and Spanish on Facebook via livestream, and taken calls from worried parishioners.
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In New York City, more than 100 coronavirus deaths between two Hispanic churches
The death toll has neared 40 among the roughly 400 congregants who join Spanish-language services at Saint Peter’s Church, a Lutheran congregation, in midtown Manhattan.
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Stabbings, shootings and assaults weigh on U.S. Jewish youth
Anti-Semitic attacks rose worldwide by 13% in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to a report by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary Jewry.