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A tourist photographs the sea in Palau in the Pacific OIcean . In a message for World Tourism Day Sept. 27, Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said the "digital transformation" of tourism has the potential for promoting happier and healthier vacations that do more to protect the natural environment and promote authentic encounters between people. (CNS photo/David Chang, EPA)

Use internet to promote tourism that respects environment, Vatican says

Posted by - August 11, 2018
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With more and more people planning their vacations online and sharing their experiences digitally, the tourism industry and tourists themselves should pay more attention to using…
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A photo of the late Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, a renowned chronicler of black Catholic history, is seen July 31 in the center of the altar at St. Katharine Drexel Chapel of Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans surrounded by pictures of four candidates for sainthood. (CNS photo/Christine Bordelon, Clarion Herald)

University to be a hub for causes of African-American Catholics

Posted by - August 11, 2018
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, announced July 31 that the university and its Institute for Black Catholic Studies will become the new hub…
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Marcelo Perdomo poses in front of large portrait of Blessed Oscar Romero Aug. 2 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington. Perdomo worked as a sacristan for Blessed Romero in his native San Miguel, El Salvador, in the early 1960s. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

In Washington, former sacristan remembers life with Oscar Romero

Posted by - August 11, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Marcelo Perdomo didn’t think an earthly brush with holiness would take place in his native El Salvador next to the parish priest. As a young man in…
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Father Chris Ponnet, chaplain at the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care in Los Angeles, speaks during a rally protesting the death penalty in Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 25, 2017. Pope Francis has ordered a revision to the catechism to state that the death penalty is inadmissible and he committed the church to its abolition. (CNS photo/Andrew Cullen, Reuters)

Catholic death penalty opponents praise pope’s catechism revision

Posted by - August 11, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Joining other Catholic death penalty opponents, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee praised the Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision…
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The Youngs of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., are the Knights of Columbus Family of the Year at the Baltimore Convention Center. Members of the family, honored Aug. 8, are from left, Christopher, 17; Mary, 9; Ryan, the father; Grace, 12; Elizabeth, the mother; Justice, 8; and Trinity, 15. The family also includes Faith, 2, and Xavier, 5 months. (CNS photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus)

God’s ‘persistent’ voice spurs Knights Family of the Year to serve others

Posted by - August 11, 2018
BALTIMORE (CNS) — A little more than two decades after they met at an ice cream social on the second day of class at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio,…
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Vashti Jackson Woodson, right, sits with her daughter Veronica Ramseur July 26 at the home they share in Columbia, S.C. Woodson, who attends St. Martin de Porres Church with her family, will turn 100 Aug. 25. (CNS photo/Christina Lee Knauss, The Catholic Miscellany)

Family and friends praise centenarian’s endless legacy of love, faith

Posted by - August 11, 2018
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CNS) — Vashti Jackson Woodson does not hesitate when asked how she feels about her 100 years of life. “I’m happy about everything!” she said. “My life has…
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Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, flips pancakes July 27 at the Knights of Columbus breakfast in Harper during RAGBRAI, an annual noncompetitive bike ride across Iowa organized by The Des Moines Register daily newspaper. Assisting the bishop is Dave Schantz, a Knight from Washington, Iowa. Bishop Zinkula and his "Pedaling to the Peripheries" team took part in the July 22-28 ride. (CNS photo/Barb Arland-Fye, The Catholic Messenger)

Bishop, other cyclists revel in spiritual component of annual Iowa ride

Posted by - August 11, 2018
IOWA CITY, Iowa (CNS) — Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula made a confession during the final “RAGBRAI Mass” at St. Mary Catholic Church in Iowa City: “I have a love-hate…
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A boy looks into the lens of a camera in 2017 in Jombo, Malawi. With assistance from the AIDS program of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, a sexual and reproductive health club for children and youth operates in the village. It allows young people to educate their peers about avoiding HIV transmission, resisting early marriages, and the prevention of early school dropouts. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Vatican makes progress on pushing drug availability for kids with HIV

Posted by - August 11, 2018
AMSTERDAM (CNS) — An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to…
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