Jan 15, 2019 | US & World
By Kurt Jensen | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — When it comes to speaking her mind, Abby Johnson never holds back. Affable in a way usually described as down-home, as the mother of seven children, she finds that a certain bluntness suits her best....
Jan 15, 2019 | US & World
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — For nearly three months, parishioners at St. Peter Catholic Church in Cameron, Wisconsin, were praying for the safe return of one of their own — 13-year-old Jayme Closs. When parishioners heard...
Jan 15, 2019 | US & World
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Two federal judges temporarily blocked the government from putting into effect new rules that would expand the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to the Little Sisters of the Poor and...
Jan 14, 2019 | US & World
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The novena “9 Days for Life” is a “powerful prayer initiative” for the end to abortion and for “the respect of all human life,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee...
Jan 14, 2019 | US & World
By Julie Asher | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The conclusion reached by a Pennsylvania grand jury that six of the state’s Catholic dioceses acted “in virtual lockstep” to cover up abuse allegations and dismiss alleged victims over a...
