FOR THE JOURNEY You may have heard this before: “The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” That line is from Frederick Buechner, an ordained Presbyterian minister, theologian and author. Most of us, within the context of our busy lives, want to […]
Pro-life marchers want their message to transcend politics
By Kurt Jensen Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a sea of printed signs and huge student groups in colorful toboggan caps at the March for Life rally, Ed York was an outlier. He’d made the two-hour drive to the National Mall Jan. 19 from his home in Martinsburg, West Virginia, not with a […]
Carolyn Woo: Plan B and some more
OUR GLOBAL FAMILY As the new year is often the season for making plans, my attention was captured in a gift shop by a plaque that offers the wisdom, “There is no Plan B.” I wanted it for my studio (my craft and workspace that I refuse to call an office). As strategy and planning […]
Pope Francis to diplomats: World peace depends on right to life, disarmament
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Because everyone has a right to life, liberty and personal security, nations must find nonviolent solutions to conflict and difficulties, Pope Francis said. A culture of peace “calls for unremitting efforts in favor of disarmament and the reduction of recourse to the use of armed force […]
Tears flow for descendants of slaves Jesuits owned, sold
Catholic News Service NEW ORLEANS — Inside the parish hall of St. Gabriel the Archangel Church in New Orleans, the personal stories flowed as freely as the tears. One by one, descendants of the 272 enslaved men, women and children sold as a group in 1838 to a Louisiana plantation by the Jesuits who ran […]
Pope prints Nagasaki postcard illustrating the horrors of war
VATICAN CITY — As 2017 was drawing to a close, the horrors of war and people’s yearnings for peace were on Pope Francis’ mind and in his prayers. In an unusual move late Dec. 30, the pope had the Vatican press office and Vatican media distribute a copy of a famous photograph from the aftermath […]
On the Zambian streets, the kids know her as Mama
By Dave Hrbacek Catholic News Service MAPLE LAKE, Minn. — Carol McBrady has no biological children. Yet on the streets of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, she is known as Mama Carol. It started 16 years ago when she was invited to visit Africa to help care for children with AIDS. She was supposed to […]
Paul VI could be canonized in 2018, newspaper reports
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Blessed Paul VI could be declared a saint in 2018, perhaps during the Synod of Bishops, an institution he re-established after the Second Vatican Council, according to the newspaper of his home diocese. La Voce del Popolo, the newspaper of the Diocese of Brescia, Italy, reported […]
God created male, female identities with inherent beauty, dignity, say faith leaders
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In an open letter Dec. 15, a group of 20 Catholic bishops and other religious leaders described as “deeply troubling” the movement today “to enforce the false idea — that a man can be or become a woman or vice versa.” “We acknowledge and affirm that all human […]
At least 23 church workers killed in 2017, Vatican says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The majority of Catholic Church workers violently killed in 2017 were victims of attempted robberies, the Vatican’s Fides agency said, with Nigeria and Mexico topping the list countries where the most brutal murders were carried out. The agency said 23 people working for the church worldwide […]
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