The recent college admissions scandal offers an example. A con-man convinced a number of wealthy couples to pay large sums of money to ensure that their spoiled and underqualified children would be accepted into some of the best universities in the country. In the process the college applications were falsified, arrangements were made to cheat
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Acts 14, 21-27 Un tinaitai ginin i Bidan i ManApostulis Dispues di munhåyan mapruklåma i Maolik na Nutisia giya Derbe ya manhålum meggai na mandisipulu, marastreha i pinekkat-ñiha tåtti fine’na para Lystra yan Iconium, ya dispues nai manhånåo para Antioch. Manma’asigura i disipulun-ñiha ginin i finu’-ñiha yan maninabiba siha na u
‘One of the big problems people have today, including so many young people, is that they have lost their ability to dream.’ Pope Francis had a clear message for young people on May 7, 2019: “One can never dream too much.” His remarks came in a talk during an ecumenical meeting with young people at
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God never tricks, traps or tempts his children to sin or commit evil, Pope Francis said. God is with his people every step of the way — during times of joy and sadness, triumph and tribulation — and he always helps lead people away from the devil and his temptations, the
SOFIA, Bulgaria (CNS) — God is love, but too many Christians live their faith in a way that undermines any attempt to communicate that essential fact to others, Pope Francis said. Celebrating a late afternoon Mass May 5 in Sofia’s Battenberg Square, the pope wore over his chasuble a gold-embroidered, Byzantine-style stole given to him
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM NORTH MACEDONIA (CNS) — The commission Pope Francis appointed to study the history and identity of women deacons did not reach a unanimous conclusion about whether deaconesses in the early church were “ordained” or formally “blessed,” the pope said. “What is fundamental is that there was no certainty that there
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (CNS) — Pope Francis went to the tiny Balkan nation of North Macedonia to pay tribute to a tiny saint who accomplished big things: St. Teresa of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje Aug. 26, 1910, so after paying the obligatory formal visit to North
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Anthony Newman can attest to the change Notre Dame Mission Volunteers-AmeriCorps can make in the lives of young people. Newman was a massage therapist in Virginia in 2011 and wanted to do more to help people when he heard about the program from a friend. He joined for two years teaching at
ATLANTA (CNS) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation May 7 to ban abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is around six weeks. The bill’s signing comes after weeks of protests and amid outcry for legal action against it. “We will not back down. We will always continue to
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Vatican envoy to the U.S. recalled the persecution of Asian Catholics, making special mention of victims of the recent bombings Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, during the annual pilgrimage of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics to the country’s largest Marian shrine on May 4. “Despite persecution, the church in Asia continues
