Roots of Peace founder fears for her nearly 400 employees in Afghanistan
By Christina Gray, Catholic News Service SAN FRANCISCO — Roots of Peace founder Heidi Kuhn is on a deadline-driven, life-or-death mission to get her…
Laypeople join religious order in ‘ministry of presence’ for terminally ill
By Peter Finney Jr., Catholic News Service NEW ORLEANS — For over 100 years in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Sisters Servants of…
Brooklyn auxiliary who was first Haitian American bishop in U.S. dies at 86
Catholic News Service BROOKLYN — Retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy A. Sansaricq of Brooklyn, who had ministered in the Diocese of Brooklyn since 1971, died…
Pope sends aid to those hit by disasters in Haiti, Bangladesh, Vietnam
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will be sending nearly a quarter of a million dollars to help people in Haiti, who…
Cardinal Burke remains hospitalized, but he’s off ventilator, out of ICU
Catholic News Service LA CROSSE, Wis. — Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off…
Catholic college president describes ‘difficult times’ in his native Haiti
By iObserve staff, Catholic News Service CHICOPEE, Mass. — Harry Dumay, president of the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee and…
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans
Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees called on the…
Miami’s Haitians urged to look to Mary for hope for long-suffering homeland
By Marlene Quaroni, Catholic News Service MIAMI — The day after a 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti’s southwestern peninsula, Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski celebrated…
San Diego bishop asks priests not to give religious exemption for vaccine
Catholic News Service SAN DIEGO — Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego urged priests Aug. 11 to “caringly decline” to provide any Catholics…
Relief workers: Haiti earthquake complicated by economy, gangs, weather
By Tom Tracy, Catholic News Service Relief workers in Haiti said the Aug. 14 earthquake might not be as catastrophic as the 2010 quake…