ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CNS) — It took years, but Arturo and Maria Perez and their children now receive Communion at Sunday Mass as a family. For some time, the couple didn’t participate in the sacraments because their marriage was not valid in the eyes of the church although they had long been civilly married. That changed
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis sat down with an expert in media and communication for a yearlong series of interviews, those discussions offered some fascinating insight into the pope’s philosophy of communication and suggested guidelines for the media. The pope also explained what motivates his signature style of spontaneously speaking and engaging with
MEDELLIN, Colombia (CNS) — In changes to the Code of Canon Law regarding translations of the Mass and other liturgical texts, Pope Francis highlighted respect for the responsibility of national and regional bishops’ conferences. The changes, released by the Vatican Sept. 9 as Pope Francis was traveling in Colombia, noted the sometimes tense relationship between
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Manila’s cardinal has ordered church bells to be rung in that archdiocese every evening starting Sept. 14 to remember the thousands of people killed in the government’s campaign against drug dealers and addicts. The archdiocese joined a long list of dioceses across the country that started commemorating the deaths by tolling
CHICAGO (CNS) — Today, Greenfield in California’s Salinas Valley looks and feels different because Father Enrique Herrera believed that the Catholic Church could make life better for the city’s residents, according to Chicago-based Catholic Extension. For his efforts in the Catholic community and the wider community, Catholic Extension has chosen Father Herrera to receive the
KNOCK, Ireland (CNS) — Catherine Wiley, 71-year-old grandmother of 10, believes the role of grandparents has never been more crucial than today. “Today we are faced with considerations that our parents and grandparents could never ever have imagined,” Wiley told more than 5,000 grandparents at the national shrine in Knock. At a Sept. 10 Mass
CAWKER CITY, Kan. (CNS) — In the cozy rectory behind Sts. Peter and Paul Church sits Father Don McCarthy with myriad items relating to his friend, Father Stanley Rother. “It’s kind of like a shrine in here,” he said, looking around. At the window was a framed picture of Father Rother with Guatemalan children. Father
CARTAGENA, Colombia (CNS) — Outside St. Peter Claver Parish in this colonial city on the Caribbean coast, Afro-Colombian women in colorful attire sell chopped fruit to tourists. Once tourists pay for papaya and pineapple, some ask for photos, which the women oblige, placing a fruit basket on their heads and posing for a portrait. Jesuit
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Ez 33, 7-9 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Ezekiel Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina; Hågu, lahin i taotåo, esta hu apunta håo guåtdia para i gima’ Israhet; yanggin un hunguk yu’ hu sångan maseha håfa, hågu un akunsehåyi yu’ nu siha. Yanggin hu sangåni i tailayi na tåotåo
I recently spoke with a friend who gave a retreat at a Catholic high school. He spoke about selfish pride as an obstacle in the Christian life and how Jesus shows us the complete opposite by His humility on the cross. My friend closed his talk by giving them a list of prideful habitsor tendencies.
