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May 27, 2021 Nicholas Wolfram Smith Christopher Major’s road to the diaconate started with a simple statement after Mass one Sunday at his parish, St. Isabella in San Rafael.  As everyone gathered after the liturgy ended, Deacon Jim Myers approached him and said, “I think you have what it takes to be an outstanding deacon.”  “That was amazing, he saw something in me that I didn't see in myself,” Major said.  Major understood the seriousness of what becoming a deacon meant: not just a five-year commitment to formation, but a lifetime of service to the church, and through Hol...

Carroll Broadcasting is bringing you a four-part series, diving into upcoming changes proposed as part of the Ministry 2025 Pastoral Plan of the Sioux City Diocese. First, we will go back to the introduction of the multi-year plan. In February 2016, the diocese announced major restructuring, reducing the number of parishes in the 24-county region from 108 to 67. Forty-one parishes would close or merge with others, leaving 31 clusters. All by 2025. At that time, the Director of Pastoral Planning was Father Brent Lingle. He explained why. The lack of people, Lingle said at that time, was not so...

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, attend Mass with their families before the presidential inauguration at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner) Editor's note: The Jan. 20 Mass in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day morning was closed to the public, but the pastoral associate for liturgy and director of music ministries at the St. Matthew's Cathedral, who helped plan the liturgy, shares here the music, readings and prayer...

By Shannon Sweeney • Posted December 16, 2020 Rejoicing, revival and renewal — these themes celebrated by the worldwide church on Gaudete Sunday were especially evident at a Mass for young adults Sunday, Dec. 13 at St. James Church, Elkins Park. The celebration was the third in a series of pilgrimage Masses sponsored by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Office for Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees (PCMR) and coordinated by the office’s director, Assumption Sister Gertude Borres, and her enthusiastic team of PCMR young adult leaders representing multicultural Catholic communiti...

Dec. 14, 2020 Nicholas Wolfram Smith An eight-month period of treatment for bone cancer led a young parishioner at St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco, to use her artistic talents to serve the church by making art for her parish’s livestream Mass.  “I love going to church and I think this new way of showing my talent is really a good way to give back to God after he helped me through my chemotherapy,” fifteen year old Jizelle Oliva said.  A member of the children’s choir at St. Augustine for several years, Oliva received a diagnosis of bone cancer last year and began chem...