Pope asks Catholics to welcome everyone, create communion
byBy Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God’s love and to make the church a loving…
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Nicaraguan regime freezes bank accounts of dioceses nationwide in another wave of church persecution
byBy David Agren Nicaragua has frozen the bank accounts of dioceses nationwide as the regime of President Daniel Ortega escalates its persecution of the…
Pope names Cardinal Farrell next head of Vatican City high court
byVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, to be…
Pope has named two-thirds of cardinals eligible to elect his successor
byBy Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the retired archbishop of Naples, celebrated his 80th birthday June 2 and, consequently, became ineligible…
Profit-at-all-costs is not a good business model, pope says
byVATICAN CITY — Business leaders must fight the temptation to seek financial gain above all else and instead promote a “culture of encounter” that…
New head of bishops’ anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories, champions Black Catholic saint causes
byBy Maria Wiering Ahead of the U.S. bishops’ meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 14-16, Bishop Joseph N. Perry said that new investigations by church…
Thousands flock to Missouri for ‘electrifying’ visit to nun’s apparently incorrupt body over Memorial Day weekend
byBy Megan Marley, Gina Christian GOWER, Mo. — Thousands flocked to a rural Missouri monastery over the Memorial Day weekend to venerate the apparently…
Promote Christian values, not divisions, on social media, Vatican says
byBy Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Catholics should make an “examination of conscience” about how they use social media, how they allow it to…
Those with political power must be ‘servants’ to citizens, pope says
byBy Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — The greatest way of life is serving others, and those in political power must see themselves as servants,…
Pope asks poets, filmmakers to challenge people, help them see beauty
byBy Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Catholic artists, poets, writers and filmmakers serve the church not by trying to “domesticate” Christ but by helping…