Category: Ministry

A pastor from B.C. got interested in the new religious communities and movements after attending the 2002 World Youth Days, so he made a pilgrimage out of visiting fifteen of them in Ontario and Quebec. They’re some inspiring and faith-filled people!

The CARA organization at Georgetown reports that the level of self-reported Sunday mass attendance hasn’t changed much over the past four years: up at the Jubilee, down again, up after 9/11, down when the sex-abuse scandal went nationwide, and now more or less where it was in late 2000.
Admittedly, the real level of Mass attendance probably doesn’t live up to the 33% figure, but the self-reported number is probably a good indication of trends.

It had to happen! Here’s a new Internet service: if you want to have a Mass said, but are too busy to run down to the parish or send a request in the mail, the Conventual Franciscans will help you out, accepting your Mass intentions over the net and the stipend by PayPal or credit card. Just click to get those graces moving!

Msgr. Michael Bransfield, the long-time rector of Washington, D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was named a few days ago to become the new bishop of the diocese of Wheeling and Charleston: that is to say, all of West Virginia.
A friend who grew up there warns that the place takes some getting used to: “Do you think he has an opinion on using moonshine for altar wine — yet? I don’t remember seeing that at the Shrine!”
Anyway, we here at Catholic Light wish the Bishop-elect all the best.

No, it doesn’t really look like this:

But there’s a real-life Confession-Mobile in Germany, offering “reconciliation with God and men”:Of course, for the charity Aid to the Church in Need, taking the grace of the sacraments into the marketplace is standard procedure.