MANILA, Philippines — Maryknoll Sister Jean Maloney first arrived in South Korea to work as a nurse after the Korean War ended more than 50 years ago. Sister Jean, 84, described herself in those days as “a young sister full of vitality” who thought she was bringing the Christian faith so she could tell everyone […]
Stephen Kent: The senseless loss of children’s lives
These hours-long “humanitarian cease-fires” called to interrupt the ongoing carnage between Israel and Gaza are obscene. They are implemented, observed then violated. Their purpose is to allow time for civilians to leave their places of relative safety in search for food, medicine and taking the injured to medical care. Civilian victims of the hubris of […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: ‘Was Mary’s privilege retroactive?’
Was Mary’s privilege retroactive? Q: In a recent article on Our Lady in a well-known Catholic magazine, I was disturbed to read that the Blessed Mother was “saved retroactively from original sin” in view of the merits of Jesus Christ. I had always learned that, from the time of her conception, Mary was born without […]
Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps ‘darkest and most difficult period’
A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, holds her daughter as her baby sleeps June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.” (CNS photo/Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters) AMMAN, Jordan The patriarch of the Chaldean […]
Pope Francis to sex abuse survivors: ‘And I ask for the grace to weep’
Pope Francis kisses a child during his June 25 general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) VATICAN CITY Here is the Vatican’s English translation of the homily Pope Francis gave in Spanish July 7 during a Mass with victims of clerical sexual abuse: The scene where Peter sees […]
Minors at border should be considered ‘refugees’
WASHINGTON From the head of the U.S. agency in charge of the welfare of more than 50,000 Central American children who have been apprehended at the Mexican border, to the Honduran cardinal who heads the international Catholic relief agency, Caritas, the message was clear, those minors are as much refugees as the people fleeing upheaval […]
Chapter on abuse is not closed while people still suffer, says archbishop
ROME The crisis of child abuse by clergy is not a thing of the past — it will linger until the church humbly and courageously reaches out to all people still suffering in silence, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. “To some it might seem less than prudent to think that the church would go […]
Father John Catoir: When pride is good
We all know that pride is a deadly sin, but can it also be a virtue? I’d say yes. There’s a good side to pride. The question a spiritual director might ask to see which side of this you’re on is this: “Are you too proud or are you not proud enough?” I’d like to […]
Photo | Beatitudes: Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted
Palestinians surround the body of a 10-year-old girl, whom hospital officials said was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during her funeral at a mosque in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, July 11. A Catholic priest in Gaza said Israeli missile attacks are wide-ranging and that there is no safe zone. (CNS photo/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)
Father Kenneth Doyle: ‘Are statues religious idols?’
Q. In the Book of Revelation (9:20), I read this: “The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.” […]
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