VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Peace is a gift that can easily be destroyed through petty gossip and speaking ill of others, Pope Francis said. People who receive and give the sign of peace “should be men and women of peace” and not ruin “the peace made by the Holy Spirit with your tongue,” the pope
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Journalists must meticulously uphold their craft of responsible reporting and not be tempted into partisan or ideological warfare, Pope Francis said. “Today, in a world where everything is fast, it is ever more urgent to call upon the tough and strenuous rule of exhaustive research, exchange and, if necessary, also keep
By: DEBORAH CASTELLANO LUBOV ‘To Give the Best of Oneself. On the Christian Perspective of Sport and of the Human Person’ On June 1, 2018 the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life published a new document entitled “To Give the Best of Oneself. On the Christian Perspective of Sport and of the Human
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church does not have “a product to sell, but a life to communicate: God, his divine life, his merciful love, his holiness,” Pope Francis told national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The mission societies were founded to educate Catholics about the needs of the church in mission lands,
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced June 5 that the official World Youth Day Cross and Marian Icon will make a tour of the United States Aug. 19-27. Panama Archbishop Jose Domingo Mendieta decided to extend the Latin American tour of the Cross and Icon to include stops in the United
TACLOBAN, Philippines (CNS) — Through early June, the social action arm of the Catholic Church has been able to help about 1.8 million people affected by the Typhoon Haiyan that struck the central Philippines in 2013. The church’s recovery and rehabilitation program has become one of its largest and far-reaching natural disaster responses in the
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — A Catholic priest who once served as chaplain of the Philippine National Police was wounded after a gun attack June 6 in Calamba City, about 25 miles from Manila. Father Rey Urmeneta, 64, a priest at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in the city, was on his way to a church
TECHNY, Ill. (CNS) — Divine Word Brother Patrick Hegarty, who helped to make Ireland’s The Word one of the country’s most successful magazines, died May 28. He was 97. “Brother Patrick sometimes was a man of few words, but you could read the twinkle in his eyes,” said Divine Word Father Quang Duc Dinh, provincial
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration June 1 criticized the Trump administration for “forcibly separating children from their mothers and fathers” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Such a policy “is ineffective to the goals of deterrence and safety and contrary to our Catholic values,” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of
Over the past few months I have been working my way through the Diocesan Pastoral Plan with my Along the Way reflections. This week I reached the point in the plan’s vision statement where the vision of “helping young children and parents encounter Jesus in a personal way” was the topic of the day. What
