Webinar panelists urge Catholic parishes to do more to support foster, adoptive parents
byBy Kurt Jensen WASHINGTON — A May 31 webinar on foster care explained the need for parishes to support parents who make the decision…
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Pope: Quick change of course necessary to beat climate change
byBy Justin McLellan VATICAN CITY — A faster change of course away from today’s throwaway culture and toward greater care for the common good…
Pope names Australian, American, Chinese scholars to papal academy
byBy Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named Tracey Rowland, an Australian theologian; Justin Farrell, a U.S. sociologist; and Tongdong Bai, a Chinese…
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…
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…