By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church must continue to work to understand the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and why they were made, rather than rethinking them, Pope Francis said. “After this magisterium, after this long journey, we can affirm with certainty and magisterial authority that […]
Oklahoma ready to welcome beatification of native son
By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholics in Oklahoma have been preparing for a long time for this moment. Many, like Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, had faith it would come, but there’s still a sense of awe, to think that a farm boy, one of their own, is about to […]
Cardinal: Priest who fathers child has moral obligation to child, mother
By Catholic News Service BOSTON — If a Catholic priest violates his vow of celibacy and fathers a child, he has “a moral obligation to step aside from ministry and provide for the care and needs of the mother and the child,” said Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley. “In such a moment, their welfare is […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Does he need an annulment first?
QUESTION CORNER Q: I need some clarification on the church’s marriage laws. I am a Catholic currently married to a divorced non-Catholic whose first marriage was not in the Catholic Church. I tried to arrange to marry him in the church, but a parish priest told me that my husband-to-be would need to get his […]
Couple demands priest’s apology for past KKK actions
By Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. — A Catholic priest in the Arlington Diocese who wrote a column asking forgiveness for the time he spent as a member of the Ku Klux Klan 40 years ago when he was “an impressionable young man” has never paid court-ordered restitution for cross-burning and other racist actions he […]
Richard Doerflinger: Shall we manufacture our children?
A MORE HUMAN SOCIETY “In the year 6565,/ Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife,/ You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too/ From the bottom of a long glass tube.” When “In the Year 2525” became a hit song in 1969, author Richard Lee Evans couldn’t have known his prediction about the […]
On the brink of famine
For 20 million people, conflict added to drought causing the largest humanitarian crisis in more than 170 years By Bronwen Dachs Catholic News Service Conflict and drought are threatening more than 20 million people in four countries with the prospect of famine, and the U.N. has called this food crisis the largest humanitarian crisis since […]
In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, no food, children are dying
By Bronwen Dachs Catholic News Service When people talk about potential famine, they mention South Sudan. But about 1 million people who live just over the border, in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, also face a food emergency. “I call it famine,” said Bishop Macram Max Gassis, retired bishop of El Obeid, Sudan. The “hunger the people […]
Report: In Iceland, people with Down syndrome ‘disappearing’
By Josephine von Dohlen Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Iceland is on its way to “eliminate” people with Down syndrome, a report from CBS News explained, causing uproar in the pro-life community over the high numbers of abortions following prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. With only one or two people, on average, born with Down […]
Ethicists say just-war criteria not met in North Korea situation
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The just-war criteria that would justify armed conflict with North Korea over its nuclear testing and threats to launch missiles have not been met, said ethicists interviewed by Catholic News Service. Those criteria include right intention, last resort and proportionality. “Preventive war in North Korea would […]
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