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Franciscan Father Brian Jordan, standing with laborers and emergency workers in Oct. 5, 2001, blesses a 17-foot-tall cross formed by steel beams that was recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York. Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain, still recalls the 9/11 terrorist attacks vividly. That first year after the attacks, he said, he doesn't remember how many funerals and memorial Masses he celebrated. (CNS photo/Kathy Willens, Reuters)

Memories of 9/11 attacks linger for fire department chaplain

Posted by - September 14, 2019
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. At…
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Lake Pend Oreille and Sandpoint, Idaho, are seen from Schweitzer MountainResort in this Aug. 11, 2019 photo. The ecumenical World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation is celebrated Sept. 1 by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Pope Francis. (CNS photo/CindyWooden)

Repent, convert, pray, give up fossil fuels, pope says

Posted by - September 8, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels and move, quickly and decisively, toward forms of clean energy,” Pope Francis said as he…
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Members of the crowd hold up a sign saying "Buon Viaggio" as Pope Francis leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 1, 2019. The sign holders were wishing the pope well on his Sept. 4-10 trip to Africa. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Climbers exist inside the church, too, pope says

Posted by - September 8, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People who race to get top positions often feel superior to others, an attitude that destroys the possibility for fellowship and communion, Pope Francis said. “We…
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Pope Francis prays as he arrives for a consistory to create new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 28, 2017, file photo. The pope announced Sept. 1 that he will create 13 new cardinals at a Oct. 5 consistory. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

New cardinals: Pope’s choices stress dialogue, care for poor

Posted by - September 8, 2019
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After the consistory to create new cardinals in early October, Pope Francis will have chosen more than half of the men who will enter the Sistine…
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Cayden Noles examines the large church bell that is mounted on the grounds of St. Michael Church in Cannelton, Ind. Cayden, who is blind and autistic, loves ringing bells, so as a surprise for his 16th birthday his mother planned a weeklong journey that included the bell at St. Michael Church in Cannelton, Ind. (CNS photo/courtesy Amanda Noles)

Teen rings in 16th birthday with bells at Indiana Catholic parish

Posted by - September 8, 2019
CANNELTON, Ind. (CNS) — Tom Huber, former parish council president at St. Michael’s Parish in Cannelton, was touched by the note he received this summer from a mother who wanted…
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Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio speaks during the 2019 Kolbe Ministries statewide conference at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in San Antonio July 20, 2019. (CNS photo/James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald)

Texas prison ministries bring grace, sacraments behind bars

Posted by - September 8, 2019
SAN ANTONIO (CNS) — Crowding around a painted portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish friar who died in a German concentration camp during World War II, prison inmates and…
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