By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a letter to Catholics in Chile, Pope Francis expressed shame for the church’s failure to listen and defend survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of the clergy.
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Supreme Court’s decision May 29 not to hear a case against an Arkansas abortion law, thus letting the state’s restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs stand, will have broad impact, say those on both sides of the issue.
By Michael Kelly, Catholic News Service DUBLIN (CNS) — Voters in Ireland have opted to remove the right to life of the unborn from the country’s constitution, paving the way for abortion on demand up to 12 weeks.
By Lou Baldwin, Catholic News Service (2017) PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — It is no accident that each year many films shown on television between Memorial Day and the June 6 anniversary of D-Day center on World War II.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Catholic News Service Veterans taking part in the 2018 Warriors to Lourdes pilgrimage to France said the journey has positively influenced their lives and benefited those around them.
By Catholic News Service ADELAIDE, Australia (CNS) — Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, who faces a maximum penalty of two years in jail for failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations, said he will stand aside from his duties as archbishop while he considers how to proceed legally.
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Revised guidelines governing Catholic and non-Catholic health care partnerships will be on the agenda of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring general assembly June 13-14 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service BUCKFASTLEIGH, England (CNS) — Holy Communion is exclusively for Catholics in a state of grace and not something to be shared between friends like beer or cake, said a former senior adviser to two popes.
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — All over-the-air TV stations are required to carry at least three hours each week of educational children’s programming — a requirement that’s under threat of being dissolved by the Federal Communications Commission.
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — U.S. Catholics have donated close to $59 million to relief and recovery efforts in response to the destruction caused by three hurricanes that hit the United States and the Caribbean and two earthquakes in Mexico last year.
By Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The Baltimore Archdiocese said May 22 it has removed a 77-year-old priest from ministry after learning of allegations of child sexual abuse against him dating to the 1970s.
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A new Vatican document on the economy, which contains a strong emphasis on financial transactions and maneuvers, is getting a warm welcome among U.S. Catholics who observe the economic scene.
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — For rural advocates, there were a lot of things not to like in this year’s farm bill. For starters, there was the zeroing out the Conservation Stewardship Program, which has a $1 billion price tag.
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world lacks tenderness today, but families can help bring it back, Pope Francis said. “The family is the place of tenderness,” he told thousands of Italian police officers and their family members during an audience at the Vatican May 25.
By Lauren Swift, Editor The foster and adoption processes are often a journey in faith and, for a confirmation teacher and parishioner at St. Charles Borromeo in Nederland, a lifelong calling. “There are certain things you feel you are meant to be and I was meant to be a mom.
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — This year’s National Catholic Prayer breakfast took on a decidedly Kansas flavor, as Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and Sam Brownback, a former House and Senate member and governor of Kansas, addressed nearly 1,000 gathered at a Washington hotel May 24.
By Carol Glatz, Catholic news Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily.
By Robert Duncan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In early May, dozens of movie extras dressed as cardinals milled around the streets outside St. Peter’s Square. One member of the film crew told The New York Times: “This is the dominion of Netflix.” But when it comes to filmmaking inside the square or on Vatican property, only the Secretariat for Communication can claim pontifical authority.
By Kelly Sankowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — About 130 leaders of young adult ministries from more than 60 dioceses across the country gathered at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington May 15-17 for the National Young Adult Ministry Summit to talk about the best ways to reach out to young adults.
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis issued decrees recognizing that 12 candidates for sainthood, including U.S. Sacred Heart Brother Norbert McAuliffe, lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way.