World News

Trump administration to apply ‘third country’ rule for asylum-seekers

Critics claim the rule will affect not just Central Americans fleeing poverty and gang violence, but those elsewhere seeking to escape religious persecution and abuse.
Read More

Poor Clare sister who traded in hoops for life of prayer marks silver jubilee

Sister Rose Marie of the Queen of Angels was a Parade All-American and then set a Villanova scoring record before choosing a life of prayer.
Read More

Conference celebrates African American Catholics’ gifts to liturgy, ministry

Several hundred gathered in Prince George’s County to enrich liturgies and ministries and promote evangelization at parishes serving Black Catholics,
Read More

South America’s Amazon: culturally diverse, globally important

A Vatican synod in October will consider the church’s ministry in a politically, culturally and ecologically complex region where indigenous people face increasing threats.
Read More

Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says

The pope said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.”
Read More
Vatican workers open tombs

Vatican discovers empty tombs as it searches for missing woman

Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican found no human remains at all. “The search had a negative result,” said Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office. “No human...
Read More

Movie Review: ‘Stuber’

With a shared-economy premise that's no doubt meant to be timely and an odd-couple pairing as hoary as David Letterman's beard, "Stuber" (Fox) takes viewers for a spin. But the result is no joy ride.
Read More

‘Dangerous’ California bill on seal of confession withdrawn before key hearing

The bill was withdrawn the day before a committee hearing in the state assembly, effectively removing it from any further consideration this year.
Read More

Opioid crisis reaches all corners of West Virginia, leaving few untouched

The state’s drug fatality rate was nearly three times higher than the national average.
Read More

Pope names women as full members of congregation for religious

Previously, all members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life had been men.
Read More

Mom says miracle in Sheen cause that saved her son a gift to whole church

As Bonnie Engstrom watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born just moments before without a pulse or drawing breath, she asked for help from the person whose prayerful support she had sought throughout her pregnancy: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Read More
1 43 44 45 46 47 132
Translate »