Dec 13, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news, US & World
By Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the years since its 1959 dedication, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception has had three main architectural focal points: on the exterior, its Great Dome and Knights Tower over...
Dec 11, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news, US & World
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The overflowing congregation at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception hardly needed reminding to raise their “eyes to the heavens” during a dedication of the Trinity...
Oct 23, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Sister Kathleen Schipani found out she was usually the very first person to teach deaf children to pray, she decided there had to be an app to fix that. Learning to pray usually happens in the family,...
Jan 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York warned that if the sanctuary of the womb is violated, then other sanctuaries are at risk. “Can any of us be safe, can any of us claim a sanctuary anywhere when the first...
Oct 16, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news
By Judith Sudilovsky, Catholic News Service JERUSALEM (CNS) — It has been painful to watch as violence has taken over Jerusalem once again, especially along the Via Dolorosa, where Jesus suffered in order to dissuade the use of violence, said Auxiliary Bishop William...
Sep 4, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun September 3, 2015
Family, friends, clergy and religious gathered at All Saints Church in Syracuse Aug. 27 for the funeral Mass of Father Wilfred Evans, 79, who passed away on Aug. 23 after a long battle with Parkinson’s. Msgr. Timothy S. Elmer, vicar general of the Diocese of Syracuse,...
Aug 24, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news
By Beth Donze, Catholic News Service NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — Like many of his brother priests, Father Dennis Hayes decided to take his chances and stay put as Katrina teased the Louisiana coast, hoping the storm’s Category 5 fury would spare his parish of St. Louise de...
Aug 5, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Papal visit
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Pope Francis comes to the U.S. Capitol Sept. 24, he could hardly ask for a better backdrop. His address to a joint meeting of Congress — historic enough since it’s the first time a religious leader who also is a head of state...