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Canossian Sister Geraldine Tan, administrator of St. Joseph's Home and Hospice, smiles as she pushes a patient in her wheelchair in 2010 outside the facility in Singapore. People who are dying must be accompanied with the love of family members and the care of medical professionals, Pope Francis said. (CNS photo/Stephen Morrison, EPA)

Update: Care for the dying does not mean obstinately resisting death, pope says

Posted by - November 26, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People who are dying must be accompanied with the love of family members and the care of medical professionals, but there is no requirement that every…
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Mount Carmel School’s 2017 Teacher of the Year and AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) teacher, Filmah Buenaflor (left), collaborates with another CSP teacher, Karen Envoy, in developing an Android app at the Mobile CSP Immersion Week held this past summer in Duluth, Minnesota.

Mount Carmel School Knights Develop Apps For US Congressional Challenge

Posted by - November 26, 2017
Students in Mount Carmel School’s Advance Placement Computer Science Principles course recently submitted computer apps to the annual U.S. Congressional App Challenge. Of the 21 entries submitted to the Office…
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ABOVE: Mount Carmel School Sophomores work on their ornaments for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. LEFT: Mount Carmel School Sophomores created this ornament that includes the CNMI flag and a miniature latte stone for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. (Photo taken by Justin Ocampo and Angelo Manese.)

Mount Carmel School students hand craft ornaments for the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.

Posted by - November 19, 2017
ORNAMENTS by Mount Carmel School’s student artists will dazzle President’s Park (White house) in Washington, D.C. as part of the 95th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting display. The school’s Sophomore…
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A priest take pictures with a tablet as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this July 7, 2013, file photo. The pope, at his Nov. 8 general audience, said it's "an awful thing" for people to take cellphone photos at Mass. (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)

Stop taking smartphone snapshots during Mass, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Mass is not a show, but a beautiful, transformative encounter with the true loving presence of Christ, Pope Francis said. That is why people need…
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Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, speaks at the Vatican June 13 about the theme of the first World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated Nov. 19. He said Pope Francis envisioned the day as a way for the whole church to reflect on the Gospel meaning of poverty. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Poverty requires action, not empty words, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates “ostentatious wealth,” Pope Francis said. “God…
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St. Frances Cabrini, the missionary to Italian immigrants in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, "teaches us the path to handling the epochal phenomenon of migration by joining charity and justice," Pope Francis said. The nun, who died Dec. 22, 1917, in Chicago, is depicted in a stained-glass window at the saint's shrine chapel in New York City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

St. Frances Cabrini is modern model for handling migration, pope says

Posted by - November 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — St. Frances Cabrini, the missionary to Italian immigrants in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, “teaches us the path to handling the…
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