Apr 8, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service CINCINNATI (CNS) — Nearly 5,000 Catholic school educators and administrators attended the National Catholic Educational Association Convention and Expo at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati April 3-5. The three-day convention was...
Apr 5, 2018 | Latest news
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic leaders in Texas criticized President Donald Trump’s April 4 announcement that he would be deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. In an April 5 tweet, San Antonio...
Apr 5, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Rejoice and Be Glad,” Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in the modern world,” will be released April 9, the Vatican announced. The document,...
Apr 4, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, “we need to ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to build the culture of love, respect and peace to which the Gospel calls us,” the...
Apr 3, 2018 | Latest news
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While millions of tourists throw a coin over their shoulder into Rome’s Trevi Fountain hoping to return to Rome one day, the money scooped out of the fountain each week offers more concrete...
Apr 3, 2018 | Latest news
By Wyatt Noble | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — The Villanova men’s basketball team claimed its second national championship in three years April 2 with a 79-62 win over Michigan, and I was an ocean away from 99 percent of my fellow Wildcats. But it turns...
Apr 2, 2018 | Latest news
By Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service LOLOTIQUE, El Salvador (CNS) — On Easter, as thousands of Salvadorans from around the country packed into the rural town of Lolotique, Catholic Church officials laid to rest a 36-year-old priest violently killed during Holy Week...
Apr 2, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Easter is a feast that calls Christians to gather together, make a commitment to dialogue and to work for the common good, Pope Francis said. In Italy and in other countries, Easter Monday is a day for...
Apr 2, 2018 | Latest news
By Cody Weddle | Catholic News Service CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) — A jail riot and fire that killed 68 people in Venezuela’s deadliest tragedy in decades could have been prevented, according to the Venezuelan bishops’ conference. In a statement released...
Apr 2, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In his Easter appeal for peace throughout the world, Pope Francis made special mention of the ongoing “carnage” in Syria and the recent violence along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip,...
Apr 2, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) — Rusty Staub, 73, the New Orleans-born Catholic baseball star who was a fan favorite in a well-traveled, 23-season career, died March 29 in West Palm Beach following a heart attack. Born Daniel Joseph Staub in...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
A small but hearty band of early risers gathered to celebrate Easter at daybreak at Holy Family Church in Fairmount. “At the Easter Vigil and on Easter Sunday, we as a Church celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in which he conquered death itself and...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
BALDWINSVILLE — The faith community of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Baldwinsville gathered to celebrate the Easter Vigil March 31. “The high point of the Paschal Triduum is the Easter Vigil, what St. Augustine calls the ‘Mother of all Vigils,'”...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
ENDICOTT — More than 50 parishioners of Our Lady of Good Counsel and St. Ambrose parishes participated in the 22nd annual Witness Walk on Good Friday, March 30. Parishioners walked through the streets of downtown Endicott commemorating Jesus’ journey...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Leading a prayer to God for the grace to feel ashamed and repentant for so many sins in the world, Pope Francis highlighted the hope that always comes from Jesus. There is hope “because your church, holy and...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The 2,000-page omnibus spending package passed by Congress in overnight sessions March 22 and signed into law the following day by President Donald Trump may not meet everybody’s definition of omnibus....
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
By Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — Catholic officials in El Salvador were shaken and expressed outrage and sadness after the assassination of a 36-year-old priest during Holy Week, in what some suspect may be a gang killing....
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Easter makes it clear that in the life of Jesus, but also in the lives of modern men and women, “death, solitude and fear” do not have the last word, Pope Francis said before giving his Easter...
Mar 30, 2018 | Latest news, US & World
The faith families of St. Mary’s Church in Hamilton, St. Joan of Arc Mission in Morrisville, and the Colgate University Newman Community joined together in a new way to celebrate Holy Thursday March 29. “Our Pastoral Councils have been working in collaboration with...
Mar 30, 2018 | Latest news, US & World
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Before washing the feet of 12 prisoners, Pope Francis told them and hundreds of inmates to remember that Jesus constantly stands before them with love, ready to cleanse their sins and forgive them. “Jesus...
