VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While digital communications and social media can be used as a tool of evangelization and a place of dialogue with others, they also can be lonely environments where young people fall prey to humanity’s worst vices, Pope Francis wrote. In his new apostolic exhortation to young people, “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”),
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME (CNS) — To fight clerical sexual abuse, the Catholic Church must have clear laws and procedures, but it also must engage in “spiritual combat,” because it is obvious the devil is at work, Pope Francis said. After the Vatican summit on abuse in February, the pope said, he read
TRENTON, N.J. (CNS) — Dawn Teresa Parkot does not mince words when she speaks about the Aid in Dying bill. “I firmly believe that assisted suicide is homicide and those who assist, regardless of their intentions, are guilty of taking a life just as surely as if they participated in a state-sanctioned execution,” Parkot said,
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Is 43, 16-21 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Isaias Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina, ni bumaba un chålan gi halum tåsi yan un kåyi gi metgut na hånum, ni gumigiha huyung i kalesa siha yan i kabayeru siha, un metgut na tropan sindålu, astaki manoppup parehu,
Bishop Ryan to Archbishop Novatus: “Welcome home!” The Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (CEPAC) has a new Apostolic Delegate. The Holy Father has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio in New Zealand and Apostolic Delegate to the Pacific Ocean Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, who is currently Apostolic Nuncio in Honduras. The appointment was officially announced in the Vatican City on
By Fr. Ken Hezel, SJ, for the North Star This past week Sr Nina Caccam, SJBP attended a conference hosted by the Diocese of Camden in New Jersey on the issue of Child Protection in the church from March 24-27, 2019.The theme of the conference was “Promise to Protect, Pledge to Heal.” More than 200
By Julie Ann Loong, for the North Star Palm Sunday was the day in which our Lord Jesus Christ triumphantly entered into Jerusalem and was welcomed by a large crowd of people who were waving palm branches or throwing them on the ground in front of him. This signifies the beginning of Holy Week. In
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To better protect minors and vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse and exploitation, Pope Francis approved a new law and a set of safeguarding guidelines for Vatican City State and the Roman Curia. Pope Francis established the new norms and legal, criminal and safeguarding procedures with an apostolic letter given
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The life of a young person and the vocation to which God calls each one is “holy ground” that pastors and parents must respect, nurture and encourage, Pope Francis wrote in a new apostolic exhortation. “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), the pope’s reflections on the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people,
Gospel Reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent by Rev. Fr. Jason Granado, San Vicente Parish.
