Mar 10, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 12, 2015
NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who retired as archbishop of New York in 2009, died March 5. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. He was 82. After collapsing at his residence that afternoon, he was taken to NYU Langone Medical Center, where doctors...
Apr 15, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun April 16, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Mercy is what makes God perfect and all-powerful, Pope Francis said in his document officially proclaiming the 2015-2016 extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy. “If God limited himself to only justice, he would cease to be God, and would instead be like...
May 6, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun May 7, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — From Easter to Pentecost — and especially during the Marian month of May — Catholics recite the “Regina Coeli” prayer “with the emotion of children who are happy because their mother is happy” that Jesus has risen from the dead, Pope Francis...
May 28, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun May 28, 2015
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — Some thought this day would never arrive. Others hoped and some always knew it would. On May 23, the Catholic Church beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while...
Apr 15, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun April 16, 2015
PANAMA CITY (CNS) — An hourlong meeting April 11 between U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro marked the first such personal encounter between the leaders of the two neighboring countries since 1958. The session held during the Summit on...
Mar 25, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 26, 2015
The word “confess” means to make a public avowal. Some may paint the word “confession” with negative meanings, as in confessing one’s sins or failures, or admitting to a crime. And, yes, in Mass Catholics confess “to almighty God” that they have greatly sinned. But...
May 6, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun May 7, 2015
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — For the past year, the question most often heard by Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director of the World Meeting of Families, was “How can I help?” Now there is an answer and a way anyone can lend a hand to the four-day conference and...
Mar 31, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun April 2, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While enjoying a private visit to the Sistine Chapel, a group of VIP guests — homeless people who live around the Vatican — were surprised by a visit from Pope Francis. The 150 visitors had just reached the Sistine Chapel at about 5 p.m....
Mar 10, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 12, 2015
NEW YORK (CNS) — At his funeral Mass March 10 in New York’s splendid St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cardinal Edward M. Egan was remembered as a churchman whose faith in Jesus Christ outshone even his considerable temporal qualities. Cardinal Egan died...
Mar 11, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 12, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis went out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, he said he did not prepare what he was going to say, but “I felt deeply that a minister needs the blessing of God, but also of his...
Mar 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 5, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A religious procession, a brainstorm session and a few glasses of wine led a group of residents gathered in a shantytown on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to come up with a plan to interview Pope Francis. It was a warm, Southern...
Jun 10, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun June 4, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has approved new procedures for the Vatican to investigate and judge claims of “abuse of office” by bishops who allegedly failed to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse. The procedures will include a...
Jun 9, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun June 11, 2015
LIMA, Peru (CNS) — Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message — one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say. “The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the...
Mar 6, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun March 5, 2015
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador May 23, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood cause. The ceremony, which moves the...
Jun 17, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun June 11, 2015
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Appealing to the entire world, Pope Francis urged everyone to read his upcoming encyclical on the care of creation and to better protect a damaged earth. “This common ‘home’ is being ruined and that harms everyone,...
