VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Doing God’s will means first of all believing in Jesus and allowing love for him to translate into love for one’s neighbors, Pope Francis said. The Gospel story of the multiplication of loaves demonstrates the concern Jesus showed for people’s daily physical needs, the pope said, but the passages that follow
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, announced July 31 that the university and its Institute for Black Catholic Studies will become the new hub for the advancement of sainthood causes of African-American Catholics. Verret made the announcement in the university’s St. Katharine Drexel chapel. Privy to this historic announcement
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Marcelo Perdomo didn’t think an earthly brush with holiness would take place in his native El Salvador next to the parish priest. As a young man in the early 1960s, Perdomo worked in his native city of San Miguel, El Salvador, organizing the sacristy and decorating the altar among his duties as
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Joining other Catholic death penalty opponents, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee praised the Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death penalty “inadmissible.” Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. Conference of
BALTIMORE (CNS) — A little more than two decades after they met at an ice cream social on the second day of class at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, Ryan and Elizabeth Young head the Knights of Columbus International Family of the Year. With five of their seven children in tow, the parishioners of
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CNS) — Vashti Jackson Woodson does not hesitate when asked how she feels about her 100 years of life. “I’m happy about everything!” she said. “My life has always been happy from the beginning up until the present. I’ve had a wonderful life!” Her words are accompanied by a radiant smile that lights
IOWA CITY, Iowa (CNS) — Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula made a confession during the final “RAGBRAI Mass” at St. Mary Catholic Church in Iowa City: “I have a love-hate relationship with RAGBRAI.” Many of the 250 at the evening Mass July 27 could relate. They had bicycled 360 miles of the weeklong Register’s Annual
AMSTERDAM (CNS) — An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to look past profit to doing the right thing. Few children in the developed world get infected with HIV anymore, so there’s little market for drug
SKARO, Alberta (CNS) — It’s easy to drive by the stone grotto at the Skaro shrine for those who don’t know its history. Tucked in a corner between two rural highways, due north of Lamont and 50 miles northeast of Edmonton, truck and cars whiz by. The drivers tend to overlook the small church and
ROME (CNS) — While Rome always has been a city of beauty that highlights both the past and the present, a quaint and unusual bar nestled in the heart of the Eternal City has taken that concept to new heights. Located Rome’s historic center, Wisdomless Club is known for serving up classic cocktails. But it
