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Mourners in Kuwait City Aug. 17 carry the coffins of clerics who were among the victims of an Aug. 14 attack against a restaurant in Burkina Faso. Pope Francis asked an estimated 10,000 people in St. Peter's Square Aug. 21 to pray in silence and then to join him in reciting the Hail Mary for the victims of the attacks the previous week in Burkina Faso, Spain and Finland. (CNS photo/Raed Qutena, EPA)

Pope leads prayers for an end to ‘inhuman violence’ of terrorism

Posted by - August 25, 2017
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Let us beg the Lord, God of mercy and peace, to free the world from this inhuman violence,” Pope Francis prayed after a week of deadly…
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Msgr. Gregory Moys views the solar eclipse Aug. 21 outside St. Paul Church in St. Paul, Ore. Attentive to the needs of hundreds who came to the parish grounds for the event, the pastor opened the historic church's restrooms. (CNS photo/Ed Langlois, Catholic Sentinel)

Venerable church a natural place to view heavens during solar eclipse

Posted by - August 25, 2017
ST. PAUL, Ore. (CNS) — Hundreds of solar eclipse viewers Aug. 21 watched the sky grow dim and then witnessed the spectacular dancing white corona of the sun’s edge from…
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Lightning strikes near Minot Air Force Base in Minot, North Dakota, Aug. 8. The Pentagon has put all U.S. military installations on alert in the wake of North Korea's threats about using missiles. (CNS photo/U.S. Air Force handout via Reuters)

Just-war tests not met in North Korea situation, ethicists say

Posted by - August 18, 2017
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The just-war criteria that would justify armed conflict with North Korea over its nuclear testing and threats to launch missiles have not been met, said ethicists interviewed…
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Retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang of San Francisco, right, and Vincentian Father Joseph Lin of St. Agatha Parish in Brooklyn, N.Y., elevate the Eucharist during Mass at the U.S. Catholic China Bureau's 27th biennial national conference Aug. 12 at St. John's University in Jamaica, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Biggest challenge for Chinese church? Fostering vocations, speakers say

Posted by - August 18, 2017
JAMAICA, N.Y. (CNS) — Fostering vocations to the priesthood and religious life is the “biggest challenge” for the Catholic Church in China, said Passionist Father Robert E. Carbonneau, executive director…
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