Pope promulgates Curia reform, emphasizing church’s missionary nature
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a…
War is ‘at our doorstep,’ pope says
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY — While people can be indifferent to wars in distant lands, they cannot afford to look the other…
Church’s outreach to refugees follows
Jesus’ example, says USCCB committee
WASHINGTON — The church’s charitable outreach to people fleeing war, political instability, poverty and other threats is a requirement for followers of Jesus, the…
Madisonville, Ky., parish is a hub
for post-tornado resources for many
By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead MADISONVILLE, Ky. — While Christ the King Church in Madisonville did not suffer damage from the tornadoes that struck western…
Higher prices for food, gas
squeeze food banks, pantries and clients
By Michael Stechschulte DETROIT — A trip to the grocery store is giving shoppers sticker shock over staples such as a gallon of milk….
After 11 years of conflict, Syria
‘off media’s radar,’ cardinal says
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY — As much of the world’s attention is turned toward the pandemic and the current crisis in Ukraine,…
With church destroyed, parish maintains
community in shed-turned-chapel
By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. — They have called it “Catholic Hill” for years, but never dreamed the hill would become the…
Pope says elderly must be prophets,
warning of world’s ‘self-destruction’
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY — In a world still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and starting to feel the threat of nuclear…
Pope prays for an
end to war in Ukraine
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY — Asking God to forgive all people tempted by violence, Pope Francis prayed for an end to the…
Black Catholics worship more
with other races than solely their own
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON — A Pew Research Center study has found that only one-fourth of U.S. Black Catholics worship in majority-Black parishes. “That…