VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus healed people of all sorts of physical ailments, but he always started with the essential — forgiving their sins, Pope Francis said. “We should take good care of our bodies, but also our souls,” the pope said Jan. 17, preaching about the Gospel of Mark’s account of Jesus healing the
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — An icon of the encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus was chosen as the official logo for the worldwide celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God. The colorful logo is based on an icon written by the late-Benedictine Sister Marie-Paul Farran, a member of the Our Lady
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ religious liberty and Catholic education committees Jan. 20 praised the Trump administration for issuing guidance on prayer in public schools. The chairmen also welcome the administration’s nine proposed rules to ensure the nation’s faith-based service providers and organizations are not discriminated against by federal agencies’ regulations
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God shows the greatest love and compassion for the greatest sinners, Pope Francis said. The Lord “has come precisely for us sinners and the greater the sinner you are, the closer the Lord is to you because he has come for you, the greatest sinner; for me, the greatest sinner; for
MADRID (CNS) — Catholic couples in Spain will undergo up to three years of marriage preparation under an initiative by their bishops to reverse the country’s high rates of divorce. The Spanish bishops launched Together on the Way (“Juntos en Camino”), a program to help couples to succeed in their vocation to marriage amid a
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told global business and government leaders that everyone has the moral responsibility to seek the integral development of all people, but especially those who are in need, suffering injustice or whose lives are threatened. “The moral obligation to care for one another flows from this fact,” which must never
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every Christian should be grateful for the gift of his or her baptism, and that gratitude should draw them together to recognize that they are brothers and sisters and called to pursue holiness together, Pope Francis said. Welcoming an ecumenical pilgrimage from Finland to the Vatican Jan. 17, Pope Francis told
ROSWELL, Ga. (CNS) — A months-long project to build a tiny home checked all the boxes for Blessed Trinity High School in Roswell. The project — which began in November 2018 and was just recently completed — has fostered a culture of service on the Catholic school’s campus; incorporated engineering, technology science and the arts;
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. (CNS) — Alonna Mertz prayed in front of abortion clinics as a teenager in Michigan, driven by her well-formed, pro-life conviction. Then, in 2017 as a young adult, she went to such a clinic in Minneapolis for a different and unexpected reason: She was pregnant. Dating a man whose values didn’t align
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sometimes the political choices people face can seem like a choice between supporting a “snake” or supporting a “dragon,” but Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops their job is to step back from partisan politics and help their faithful discern based on values, said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of
