Oct 31, 2018 | Latest news, Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Diane Pare discovered the deep potential of a little word: “help.” “I have been involved in various ministries over the past 20 years,” she said, “starting when my pastor, Father Joseph Barker at St. Patrick’s Church in...
Oct 30, 2018 | Latest news
The Diocese of Syracuse issued the following statement Oct. 30: The Diocese of Syracuse was informed today that it is named and will be served with a lawsuit that in part claims conspiracy among the eight dioceses of New York to conceal names of...
Oct 30, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church and all its members must get better at listening to young people, taking their questions seriously, recognizing them as full members of the church, patiently walking with them and offering...
Oct 30, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) — How the Diocese of Buffalo handles cases of priests suspected of abuse was the subject of a report Oct. 28 by the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” which talked to a woman who leaked diocesan files on those...
Oct 29, 2018 | Latest news
By Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — An attorney for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed that federal officials have asked the organization to keep documents and other files that might pertain to possible sex abuse allegations...
Oct 29, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Robert Duncan | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994. Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, who served as pro-nuncio to...
Oct 28, 2018 | Latest news
Syracuse Bishop Robert J. Cunningham released the following statement Oct. 28, after a gunman killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue the day before. “We join with our Jewish brothers and sisters in praying for those who have lost their lives due to the...
Oct 28, 2018 | Latest news
By Julie Asher | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Catholic bishops stand with “our brothers and sisters of the Jewish community,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Oct. 27 after a horrific shooting earlier that...
Oct 25, 2018 | Latest news
By Katherine Long | Editor The “pro-life generation” was called to defend life Oct. 18 during the annual Mass for Life, co-sponsored by the diocesan Office of Family/Respect Life Ministry and the Catholic Schools Office. Students from Bishop Grimes in East...
Oct 24, 2018 | Latest news, Sun October 25, 2018
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The scene sparks like a fun house for the strong and the zany. The competitors, in their dicey acrobatic endeavors on an obstacle course, navigate the likes of the Rope Jungle, Rolling Pin, Roulette Row, Butterfly Ram, Cannonball...
Oct 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Adorers of the Blood of Christ have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether their religious freedom rights were violated by the construction and pending use of a natural gas pipeline through its...
Oct 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Susan Klemond | Catholic News Service MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (CNS) — Comics show eternity and everyday life from an angelic perspective. We’re not privy to what our guardian angels say about us, but artist Louis Hall, 54, enjoys imagining their conversations...
Oct 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service CLEVELAND (CNS) — Franciscan Sister Janice Cebula isn’t one to turn down a chance to learn and be inspired. So when Network, the Catholic social justice lobby, decided to take its Nuns on the Bus campaign on the road...
Oct 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While the clerical sexual abuse crisis did not dominate discussions at the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said it was discussed, and everyone in the room clearly believed the...
Oct 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Joanne Fox Catholic News Service CARROLL, Iowa (CNS) — Keynote speakers at annual Rekindle event for teens in the Diocese of Sioux City emphasized God’s love to those in attendance, something that seems to be lost on today’s young people....
Oct 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Honduran Bishop Jose Antonio Canales of Danli said that, given what is going on in his country and throughout Central America, he had to walk in the “Share the Journey” campaign of Caritas...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — “Despite many promising strides made in our country, the ugly cancer of racism still infects our nation,” the U.S. bishops say in a proposed pastoral letter on racism. The proposed statement,...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics are far from the only religion in the public-policy arena. One such Christian counterpart is the National Association of Evangelicals, which has published “For the Health of the Nation: An...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — One small group’s discussions at the Synod of Bishops concerning the LGBTQ community focused on how the Catholic Church could best minister to people who already feel marginalized and attacked by the...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Matthew Gambino | Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has received a subpoena as part of a federal grand jury investigating allegations of child sexual abuse and a cover-up of such claims, church officials confirmed Oct. 18....
Oct 18, 2018 | Latest news
By Emily Benson Catholic News Service AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (CNS) — A tragic limousine crash in Schoharie that took the lives of 20 people just the week before has changed “our lives, our community” forever, Peter Rose said in welcoming the congregation at...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said he is convinced he was right to accuse Pope Francis and church officials of failing to act on accusations that then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick engaged in sexual...
Oct 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Next year’s March for Life plans to fortify its pro-life message with science that proves life begins at conception and with a specific focus on stem-cell research. “Unique From Day One:...
Oct 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Washington has voluntarily released the names of abusive priests and stated that there have been no credible claims of abuse made against archdiocesan priests in almost 20 years. On Oct. 15, church...
Oct 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Indiana’s attorney general Oct. 15 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reverse a ruling by a lower court declaring unconstitutional an Indiana law that makes it illegal for women in the state to have an...
Oct 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Denis Grasska Catholic News Service SAN DIEGO (CNS) — Most people will never know firsthand what it’s like to see their real-life marital struggles played out on the big screen. But Darren and Heather Turner do and, as Darren freely admits, “It is...
Oct 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Rev. Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Presbyterian pastor who had been jailed by Turkish authorities for nearly two years, returned to U.S. soil Oct. 13 after being freed the day before by Turkey. Rev. Brunson, who had...
Oct 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In their second round of reports to the Synod of Bishops, a number of working groups called for qualified and, in some way, supervised spiritual mentors or directors, recommended including more female...
Oct 15, 2018 | Latest news
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Although bishops should make up the majority of voting members at a Synod of Bishops, the fact that the body is only consultative means women should be included as full members just as priests and...
Oct 15, 2018 | Latest news
By Colleen Rowan Catholic News Service CHARLESTON, W.Va. (CNS) — Healing of the church can be brought about by all faithfully living their God-given vocations, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore told Catholics in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston during a...
