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Philippine police are seen in Pasay City Sept. 6. Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ordered church bells to ring 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. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)

Manila cardinal asks churches to ring bells to remember drug-war deaths

Posted by admin - September 15, 2017

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…

Father Enrique Herrera, pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Greenfield, Calif., is the winner of the 40th annual Lumen Christi Award of the Catholic Extension Society. He is pictured in a late June photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Extension Society)

California pastor of immigrant parish honored with Lumen Christi Award

Posted by admin - September 15, 2017

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,…

Catherine Wiley, founder of the Catholic Grandparents Association, is pictured with singer and family values advocate Dana-Rosemary Scallon and two great-grandmothers: Rosemary Hogan and Margaret Harrington, Sept. 10 at the National Marian Shrine in Knock, Ireland. (CNS photo/Sarah Mac Donald)

Grandparents say their role has never been more crucial than today

Posted by admin - September 15, 2017

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…

Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese who was murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered, is shown baptizing a child in this undated photo. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City announced the North American priest will be beatified Sept. 23 in Oklahoma. (CNS)

Kansas priest recalls friendship with martyr as beatification nears

Posted by admin - September 15, 2017

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…

Young women in Cartagena, Colombia, celebrate the Sept. 9 feast of St. Peter Claver. Pope Francis will visit Cartagena Sept. 10. (CNS photo/David Agren)

In Caribbean Colombia, Jesuits try to continue legacy of St. Peter Claver

Posted by admin - September 15, 2017

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…