(The following is an ATW dealing with the issue of legalization of marijuana. I didn’t take any specific position on the topic but rather presented the steps for moral decision making. Though I did point out at the end that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis have been opposed to the legalization of
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Jer 31. 7-9 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Jeremiah Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: Fanessalåo put minaguf para si Jacob, saluda i ma’gas i nasion siha; pruklåma i tininan-miyu ya en sangan: Esta Ha na’fanlibri i Saina i taotåo-ña, i mañopbla giya Israhet. Atan ha’, sa’ bai Hu konni’
26 October 2018 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Typhoons are not strangers to us. They batter our islands every year. And yet, knowing that it is a fact of life in the CNMI does not make the situation any easier when we are struck by one. We endure the strong winds and punishing
Mount Carmel School congratulated her VOX Knights for their outstanding performance in the recent October NSDA/NJSDA competition. NSDA Winners: Lyndon Digno (3rd place Humorous Interpretation, 3rd place Prose A), Larry Dean Cruz (4th place Original Oratory A, 5th place Poetry A), Ydelle Faye Acosta (3rd place Original Oratory A), Minju Kang (4th place Original Oratory
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognized them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church. Thousands of pilgrims from the new saints’ home countries — Italy, El Salvador, Spain and Germany — were joined
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Procuring an abortion is wrong, inhumane and like hiring a hit man “to fix a problem,” Pope Francis said. It is a contradiction to allow for killing a human life in a mother’s womb “in the name of protecting other rights,” he said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just because some young people disagree with Catholic moral teaching, including in the area of sexuality, does not mean the church’s teachings are unclear or should change, Cardinal Robert Sarah told the Synod of Bishops. The church and its pastors should “courageously propose the Christian ideal corresponding to Catholic moral doctrine
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Religions, which are meant to build bridges, contradict their very nature if they stop pursuing the path of peace, Pope Francis said. “Our differences, therefore, must not pit us one against the other; the heart of a true believer seeks to open paths of communion always and everywhere,” the pope said
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even in far-off Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, a bishop said a young person asked him what the church is doing to prevent clerical sexual abuse. “You would think in our isolation we would not hear about this topic,” said Bishop Paul Donoghue of Rarotonga, who described his diocese as one
ROME (CNS) — At a time of technological and scientific progress, “we ought to feel shame” for not having advanced in “humanity and solidarity” enough to feed the world’s poor, Pope Francis said. “Neither can we console ourselves simply for having faced emergencies and desperate situations of those most in need. We are all called
