Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church

1730 Link Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27103 336.722.7001

& Our Lady of Fatima Chapel - 211 West 3rd St., WS, NC 27101

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National Catholic Register
- Chinese Catholic Exec Arrested in Hong Kong for ‘Collusion With Foreign Powers’
  
  By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — Hong Kong police today arrested Catholic business tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying under the city’s new national security law — the first high-profile casualty of the...
- St. Lawrence the Martyr and Prudentius the Poet
  
  By Stephanie Mann | According to the old Catholic Encyclopedia entry for the fourth/fifth century A.D. Spanish poet, Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, he wrote his poems “to...
- St. Lawrence Laughed in the Face of Death
  
  By Angelo Stagnaro | Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Q: Do you know the three things God doesn’t know? A: (1) What a Jesuit is doing, (2) what a Dominican is thinking and (3) how many...
- Catholic Groups Aid Recovery After Beirut Explosion
  
  By Catholic News Agency | Following an explosion that killed more than 200 people in Beirut, international Catholic groups have responded by providing health services and necessities to the...
- Your Domestic Church Can Be a Refuge From the Chaos
  
  By Brianna Heldt | The domestic church was always important, but it might matter even more now. Unless you’ve been living under a rock — which, frankly, sounds pretty nice right about now — you know...
Catholic News Service
- Update: Lebanon's Catholic leaders seek help; here's where you can donate
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters By BEIRUT (CNS) -- As Lebanon's Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut...
- Priest's 100-mile bike ride raises COVID-19 aid for parish -- and hope
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Brooklyn By Ian Alvano WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Christopher Heanue started his morning July 27 by celebrating Mass at 5 a.m. and then took off on a 100-mile...
- Weapons must be set aside for peace to flourish, pope says
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Yuriko Nakao, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and...
- Vatican says baptisms that used a modified formula are not valid
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Changing the words of the formula for baptism render the sacrament invalid, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
- Update: John Hume, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, dies at 83
  
  IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul McErlane, Reuters By Michael Kelly DUBLIN (CNS) -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace"...
News from the Vatican
- Pope baptizes formerly conjoined twins who were separated at Vatican hospital
  
  Pope Francis on Thursday baptized conjoined twins who had been separated at a Vatican-owned hospital in June.
- Complicated crossings: Pandemic has not stopped migration
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has complicated the situation of migrants and refugees, but it has not stopped people from seeking safety and a better life abroad, and it has not diverted the Vatican's...
- COVID-19 restrictions offer chance to support rural tourism, Vatican says
  
  The drastic reduction in people’s mobility because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be an opportunity for moving one’s heart and mind instead — and for finding other ways to be close to and supportive...
- New appointees to Francis’s financial powerhouse signal progress of women
  
  The recent appointment of six women to the Vatican's chief financial body has been praised as a significant stride in Pope Francis's consistent insistence that more women are needed in leadership...
- Pope on Hiroshima: Possession of nuclear weapons ‘immoral’
  
  Pope Francis on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral.