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St. Charles Borromeo, Cheboygan MI.What happened to St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Cheboygan Michigan? According to newspaper accounts St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church had its corner stone laid in 1912. Over seven hundred huddled within the church nave and large choir loft for the very first Mass celebration in the Roman Rite. Another hundred or so were left outside, as standing room within the church’s vestibule was also filled. Every day for over fifty years St. Charles Borromeo Church celebrated its ancient Roman Catholic liturgy. A “Better” Idea for St. CharlesStarting in the mid-sixties, this beautiful ten thousand square...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 09:13 am At least 50 people were killed and others injured Sunday when gunmen attacked worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, according to media reports. A doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the Nigerian state of Ondo, told Reuters that no fewer than 50 bodies had been moved to the Federal Medical Center in Owo and to St. Louis Catholic Hospital. The attack took place during a Pentecost Sunday service at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, according to Ondo's governor, Arakunrin Akeredolu. A video posted on...

In addition, statues of angels on either side of the tabernacle ‘were decapitated and destroyed.’ BROOKLYN, New York (LifeSiteNews) — A tabernacle was ripped from the altar of a Catholic church in New York City and stolen after the consecrated hosts it contained were scattered over the altar. The outrage took place in the parish church of St. Augustine in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Father Frank Tumino, the pastor of St. Augustine and St. Francis Xavier Parish, said he had gone into the church at around 3.50 p.m. on Saturday afternoon to hear confessions when he discovered the altar damaged altar...

Draft proposals circulated by officials of a plenary council underway in Australia include a call to increase lay participation in Church life and governance, in part by petitioning the Vatican to allow lay people to preach the homily in Mass. Proposed measures also include a call to more frequent use of a communal form of the sacrament of penance, despite strict canonical limitations of its use. If adopted by the plenary council, those proposals would see the Church in Australia asking the Vatican for dispensations from canon law governing the liturgical discipline of the universal Latin Church. The proposals are...