IMAGE: CNS photo/Spirit Juice, Knights of Columbus By Andrew Butler For John Moore, each step is a prayer. And when you’re walking the 2,800 miles from San Francisco to Washington, that’s a lot of prayer. Last January, Moore completed a cross-country walk to pray for the unborn. Accompanied by his …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians can become stagnant if they do not have the crashing waves of hope moving in their lives, Pope Francis said. "Hope is this living in tension, always; knowing that we cannot make a nest here: the life …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Georgetown University By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Addressing an audience at Georgetown University Oct. 25, the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States said the world news in Washington is as "Ukrainian as it ever has been." But although he made reference to the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Mihoko Owada By VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After spending most of October at the Vatican working with the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon and dedicating the first two weeks of November to "ad limina" visits with bishops from the United States, Pope Francis will travel to Thailand …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Tyler Orsburn EL PASO, Texas (CNS) — With much national attention focused along the U.S.-Mexico border, members of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions visited three programs in the Diocese of El Paso that have been funded by the Catholic Home Mission Appeal. …

IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the Amazon calls for "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" that leads to new ways of caring for "our common home," according to the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. In …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Poor people from the Amazon have shown that God’s creation must be treated "not as a resource to be exploited but as a home to be preserved, with trust in God," Pope Francis said. He celebrated Mass Oct. …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even if Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump have strong differences on the issue of migration, there are many other areas of common agreement where their joint efforts promote peace and human dignity, said the U.S. ambassador …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon asked that women be given leadership roles in the Catholic Church, although they stopped short of calling for women deacons. In the Amazon, like in the rest of the world, …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To proclaim the Gospel message of hope, the Catholic Church in the Amazon must open new paths of evangelization in the region, including by instituting new ministries for lay men and women, the Synod of Bishops said. The …