Bishops support Biden’s racial equity orders related to housing, prisons
byCatholic News Service WASHINGTON — The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees welcomed recent executive actions by President Joe Biden to…
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March is small, but group’s ‘message of solidarity’ with unborn strong as ever
byBy Kurt Jensen, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — It was the coldest national March for Life in some years, it was the smallest, and…
Pope establishes World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly
byBy Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis announced the establishment of a World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly…
Pope meets with head of World Food Program, which has been flagging crises
byBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met with David M. Beasley, the executive director of the U.N. World Food…
Pope: Failure to remember Holocaust will lead world down same path
byBy Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Remembering the Holocaust and its victims is not only an act of solidarity but…
Poet Amanda Gorman is a light to us all, parishioner says
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Long before she burst into the public spotlight delivering her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman got a…
U.S. bishops welcome Biden’s order not to release census citizenship data
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The leaders of two U.S. bishops’ committees applauded President Joe Biden’s executive order reversing a policy…
Prayer vigils in Virginia call for end to death penalty
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — For Stephanie Niedringhaus, it was all about the names. At some of the prayer vigils for…
Cardinal Czerny outlines role of ‘Fratelli Tutti’ in consecrated life
byBy Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Even though Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” is not aimed specifically at vowed religious, those in…
Archbishop Cordileone says no Catholic ‘in good conscience’ can favor abortion
byBy Julie Asher, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — When they vote, Catholics must weigh many issues of very grave moral consequence “in good conscience,”…