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Pope Francis processes alongside Orthodox Metropolitan Gennadios of Italy, at right in black, as he arrives to preside over an ecumenical prayer service Jan. 18 at Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. The service marked the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope says it’s ‘grave sin’ to deny God has blessed other Christians

Posted by - January 27, 2019
ROME (CNS) — Just as divisions in society grow when wealth is not shared, divisions within Christianity grow when the richness of gifts God has given to one Christian church…
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Women pray during a Holy Hour Jan. 22, 2019, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The service and Mass that followed it comprised a Prayer Vigil for Life marking the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. Jan. 22 is the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion across the nation. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

N.Y. bishops decry new law signed on Roe anniversary to expand abortion

Posted by - January 27, 2019
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — New York state “has become a more dangerous one for women and their unborn babies” with the passage of a bill to expand abortion called the…
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A teacher at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School in Henderson, Ky., helps third-grade students with a reading lesson March 28, 2018. National Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated across the country Jan. 27-Feb. 2 this year with the theme: "Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed." (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Catholic Schools Week celebrated Jan. 27-Feb. 2

Posted by - January 27, 2019
WASHINGTON (CNS) — National Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated across the country Jan. 27-Feb. 2 this year with the theme: “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.” “Young people today…
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Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., and others students from the school stand in front of Native American Nathan Phillips Jan. 18 near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in this still image from video. An exchange between the students and Phillips Jan. 18 was vilified on social media the following day, but the immediate accusations the students showed racist behavior were stepped back as more details of the entire situation emerged. (CNS photo/Kaya Taitano, social media via Reuters)

Covington school incident: Investigation begins, discussion ongoing

Posted by - January 27, 2019
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Days after the now-famous exchange took place between Covington Catholic High School students and a Native American tribal leader in Washington, the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, announced…
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Carole Tessier rides with her birth mother, Margaret Teece Nagella, to the March for Life in Washington Jan. 18, 2019. Tessier met her birth mother for the first time almost a year ago. A few weeks after abortion became legal in the United States Jan. 22, 1973, Nagella, then 18, realized she was pregnant with Tessier. The oldest in a Catholic family of nine from Ravenna, Ohio, she knew from the beginning that she would carry her child to term and find an adoptive family. (CNS photo/Zoey Maraist, Arlington Catholic Herald)

Birth mother and daughter who reunited a year ago march for life together

Posted by - January 27, 2019
FAIRFAX, Va. (CNS) — The bus ride from Fairfax to Washington took only half an hour. But for two of the passengers, the trip was about 45 years in the…
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Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks with Hawaii State Rep. Gene Ward after the Red Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu Jan. 15, 2019. Cardinal Turkson gave the homily at the annual Mass to pray for public officials. (CNS photo/Anna Weaver, Hawaii Catholic Herald)

At Red Mass, cardinal offers a spiritual view of ecology, work, politics

Posted by - January 27, 2019
HONOLULU (CNS) — Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, offered Hawaii’s civil servants a consecrated view of work, politics and environmental stewardship in…
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