OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) — If the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother “fills us with sadness,” it also “gives us the joy of admiring the kindness, generosity and courage of a great man of faith,” Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Sept. 23 in Oklahoma City. The 13 years Blessed
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican is asking Catholic schools and universities to take the lead in pioneering education networks that value individual identity and talent, but also help students see how their gifts can contribute to the common good. The Congregation for Catholic Education presented broad guidelines in the document, “Educating to Fraternal Humanism,”
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The new school year for CCD kicks-off this weekend in all the parishes around the diocese. Sr. Nina Caccam, SJBP, who is the director of the Office of Religious Education is expecting an increase of enrollment once again following the trend and statistics in the past few years. Last year’s CCD enrollment was 976 students
Perhaps you have been asked by a friend or loved one, “Why is it important for me to go to church? If God is everywhere, then what is so special about the church? Why do some go to church but their actions seem so far from being Christian? I admit these are difficult questions and
One of the least understood and most complex debates that has been raging the past few years, particularly in the United States, is the “religious liberty” controversy. It is at the heart of Church and government relationships. In this and a few subsequent issues of Along the Way I will try to explain what the debate is
FINE’NA NA TINAITAI Ez 18, 25-28 Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun i Prufeta as Ezekiel Taiguini ilek-ña i Saina: Ilik-miyu na, “Ti tunas i bidan i Saina!” Ekkunguk Yu’ på’gu, hamyu ni taotåo Israhet: Kåo i bidå-hu ti tunas, osino, i bidan-miyu ti tunas? Yanggin i tinas na tåotåo ha bira gui’ ginin
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — People need to have true compassion so they feel others’ pain and are moved to help, Pope Francis said. “Compassion is an emotion that engages, it is a feeling from the heart, from the gut,” affecting one’s entire being, the pope said Sept. 19 during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As search and rescue operations continued in central Mexico, where more than 200 people died after a strong earthquake Sept. 19, Pope Francis offered his prayers for the victims. “May our mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, with great tenderness be near the beloved Mexican nation,” the pope said in Spanish Sept.
