Pope Francis listens to a question from Jason Horowitz of The New York Times aboard his flight from Antananarivo, Madagascar, to Rome Sept. 10, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

‘Just the facts,’ pope tells reporters, commenting on news media

Posted by - September 14, 2019

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MADAGASCAR (CNS) — No one really knows what the future of the news media will be, but it will have no future if reporters and the public cannot distinguish between facts and fiction, Pope Francis said. Honoring a request from the Spanish news agency EFE to contribute to its collection

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XXIV DAMENGGU GI UTDINÅRIU NA TIEMPU

Posted by - September 14, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                                   Ex 32 7-11. 13-14 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Exodus Ilek-ña i Saina as Moises,       “Hånåo insigidas påpa’ gi taotåo-mu, atyu siha i un konni’ huyung ginin i tanu’ Ihipto, sa’ manhuyung manailayi.  Ti åpmam mabira siha ginin i fina’na’guek-ku na chålan ni Hu fanu’i siha, ya manmama’tinas ya ma’adodora

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Liturgical Guidelines for the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa

Posted by - September 14, 2019

The Diocese of Chalan Kanoa was established 35 years ago on November 08, 1984.  As in any growing Diocese, one of its main goal is to foster, promote and implement good pastoral liturgy throughout its parishes.  During the early part of 2018, under the leadership of Fr. Harold D. Funa and the Members of the

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Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Antananarivo, Madagascar, to Rome Sept. 10, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Ideological fixation, not ‘loyal criticism,’ feeds possibility of schism, pope says

Posted by - September 14, 2019

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MADAGASCAR (CNS) — Pope Francis told reporters he hoped and prayed the Catholic Church would not experience a new schism, but human freedom means people always have had and will have the “schism option.” “I pray that there not be schism, but I am not afraid,” Pope Francis told reporters

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On Permanent Diaconate (Part 1)

Posted by - September 14, 2019

The Diocese of Chalan Kanoa is planning to start the formation process for another group of deacon candidates in the near future. In preparation for the formation program, I thought it would be a good idea to dedicate a few issues of Along the Way to the topic. Since I’m writing about the diaconate, it

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Venerable Henriette Delille, who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans in 1842, is depicted in a painting by Haitian artist Ulrick Jean Pierre. The Diocese of Little Rock, Ark., submitted formal documentation from a fact-finding mission regarding an alleged miracle, a healing through the intercession of Mother Henriette of a 19-year-old Arkansas college student in 2008. (CNS photo/ courtesy Sisters of the Holy Family)

Possible healing could advance Mother Delille’s sainthood cause

Posted by - September 14, 2019

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CNS) — For what could be the first time in the 176-year history of the Diocese of Little Rock, a diocesan tribunal submitted formal documentation to the Vatican on an alleged healing miracle of a former Arkansas college student. “We served as a fact-finding gathering source for the Holy See,” said Father

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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 14, 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 Chapel to elect his successor. And despite what critics of Pope Francis filled social media with Sept. 1 about him setting up the college to

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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 the time of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Msgr. Delendick had just finished celebrating Mass at St. Michael’s Church in Brooklyn where

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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 marked the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. “We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including

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