INTELLECT AND VIRTUE Last week a friend invited my wife and me to join her in celebrating the 50th anniversary of her perpetual vows. It was a simple but moving ceremony. There was a Mass with guests and members of her religious community. At the offertory she renewed her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and […]
Christian life is a love story with God, says pope, proclaiming 35 new saints
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Like the Catholic Church’s newest saints, Christians are called to live their faith as a love story with God who wants a relationship that is “more than that of devoted subjects with their king,” Pope Francis said. Without a loving relationship with God, Christian life […]
Death penalty is ‘contrary to the Gospel,’ pope says
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, “is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel,” Pope Francis said. Marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11, Pope Francis said the catechism’s discussion of the death penalty, […]
Preserving the art of the Vatican gardens
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Roughly half of the Vatican’s 110 acres is devoted to gardens, and a major project is underway to keep them as “green” as possible. It’s not about watering the plants, although that was a big concern this year with a drought in Italy. The Vatican Museums […]
Eliminating differences between sexes ‘not right,’ Pope Francis says
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — While societies must find a way to overcome the subjugation of women, pretending there are no differences between men and women or even using technology to change a person’s sex is not the answer, Pope Francis said. Using science “to radically eliminate any difference between […]
Catholic Scout leaders to accept girls
By Catholic News Service IRVING, Texas — The leaders of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, which has its headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving, said they “accept and work with the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America” to admit girls. “We were informed this morning” of the policy change, said […]
Devotion to Padre Pio seen in thousands who came to venerate relics
By Joyce Duriga Catholic News Service CHICAGO — When the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina — commonly known as Padre Pio — stopped at two Chicago churches, more than 19,000 people turned out to venerate them, organizers said. The relics, which included a lock of Padre Pio’s hair, blood from his wounds, a glove […]
Father Kenneth Doyle: People leaving right after Communion
QUESTION CORNER Q: I am surprised by the number of people who regularly leave church immediately after receiving the Eucharist. In the diary of St. Faustina, Jesus says how sad he is that people treat him as a dead object and busy themselves with other things. It is distracting and disruptive of my own personal […]
Greg Erlandson: The hollow man
AMID THE FRAY What savagery lies in the breast of man? Two recent television epics ask us to contemplate this question. The first is Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s magnificent documentary, “The Vietnam War.” The other epic is the massacre in Las Vegas. A lone gunman used his hotel room as a sniper’s nest, ambushing […]
Bishops praise administration’s expansion of exemptions on contraceptive mandate
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Oct. 6 issued interim rules expanding the exemption to the contraceptive mandate for religious employers, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who object on moral grounds to covering contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs and devices in their employee health insurance. Leaders of […]
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