ON THE JOURNEY The Jesuit Volunteer Corps was young — and so was I — when I first arrived at a remote Alaskan village to teach school at a Jesuit boarding school for Native Alaskan students as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. There were no cellphones yet, and the internet did not exist. […]
Carolyn Woo: Who put Christ on the cross?
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY The crucifixion of Our Lord is almost always depicted in art showing the torture from asphyxiation on the cross, the nails, the wound made by the spear, the crown of thorns or the beating on the way to Calvary. While these are indeed the implements that took the life of Jesus, they […]
Bishop Silva ‘proud’ of Catholics who rallied against assisted suicide
By Catholic News Service Bishop Larry Silva told that Hawaii Catholic Herald that he was “very proud of the large number of our parishioners who signed petitions and contacted their legislators” in opposition to the physician-assisted suicide bill which the Health Committee of the Hawaii House of Representatives March 23 unanimously voted to defer. The […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: Did Jesus feel abandoned?
QUESTION CORNER Q: When Jesus was dying on the cross, according to the Gospel, he cried out, “My God, why have you abandoned me?” Why was he saying this? Did he really feel that his Father had abandoned him? (Coxs Creek, Kentucky) A: Half a century ago, when I first began to think about the […]
South Sudanese threatened by famine, worsened by war, CRS says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Some 5 million people in South Sudan — half of its total population — are on the brink of starvation and a quarter of a million children are already severely malnourished, a representative from the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services said. Famine has already gripped 100,000 […]
Restoration on Jesus’ tomb signals church cooperation
By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service JERUSALEM — Less than a year after restoration work began, the Edicule — the traditional site of Jesus’ burial and resurrection — was inaugurated in an ecumenical ceremony led by representatives of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian churches, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The 200-year-old structure […]
Priest pleads for safety of N. Korean Christians
By Catholic News Service PARIS — A French Catholic priest working with North Korean refugees in China said conditions have worsened for surviving Christians under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un and urged the Chinese government to give shelter to fugitives from the communist-ruled country. Father Philippe Blot, who works with the Paris Foreign Mission […]
Holy Father recognizes miracle attributed to Fatima visionaries
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two of the shepherd children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, thus paving the way for their canonization. Pope Francis signed the decree for the causes of Blesseds Francisco […]
Accompanied by the church, indigenous people fight for rights in Amazon rainforest
By Barb Fraze Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The railroad runs more than 550 miles through 27 communities in the Brazilian Amazon. It runs so close to people’s homes that the houses have cracked, and some people have hearing loss. The trains carry minerals out of the rainforest to the coast. But the tracks separate […]
Father Eugene Hemrick: Two sides of devotion
THE HUMAN SIDE “Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.’ Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you” (Is 49:14-15). Isaiah’s prophetic message that God is eternally devoted to us is needed now […]
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