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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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Worshippers attend a candlelight procession in 2016 at the annual Skaro Pilgrimage in Alberta. The shrine was built in 1919 by Polish pioneers who hauled 600 wagonloads of stones to the site. (CNS photo/Lincoln Ho, Grandin Media)

After 100 years, Marian shrine in Alberta still draws thousands

Posted by - August 11, 2018
SKARO, Alberta (CNS) — It’s easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don’t know its history. Tucked in a corner between two rural…
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Fabrizio Ghilardi, managing director of the Wisdomless Club, poses at the club in Rome June 12. In a city where many restaurants and bars are being modernized, the new club offers a quiet atmosphere with 1930s decor and classical Christian art. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Tradition with a twist: Rome club has ancient roots, modern flair

Posted by - August 11, 2018
ROME (CNS) — While Rome always has been a city of beauty that highlights both the past and the present, a quaint and unusual bar nestled in the heart of…
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In this 2016 file photo, Filipinos walk past a newspaper stand in Manila, Philippines. A Philippine church official urged about 150 priests, women religious and lay people working in Catholic media to confront "fake news" during the annual National Catholic Media Convention Aug. 6-9 in Davao City. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)

Filipino Catholic media urged to confront ‘fake news’

Posted by - August 11, 2018
DAVAO CITY, Philippines (CNS) — Filipinos working in the church’s social communication ministry need a lot of prayer and a “sense of mission” to be able “to combat fake news”…
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