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Pope names new leader for Australia’s largest archdiocese
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy ACBC By MELBOURNE, Australia (CNS) — Pope Francis has named Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli as the ninth leader of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. The announcement came late June 29 in Melbourne. Archbishop Comensoli, 54, the bishop of Broken Bay, Australia, since 2014, succeeds Archbishop Denis Hart, 77, …
Humble companions: Catholic-Anglican document sees healing in difference
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A new document driven by a fresh approach taken by the official Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue commission reflects a major development in ecumenism where difference is not cause for suspicion or reproach, but is used as an enriching opportunity for …
At Texas center, bishops join in a warm welcome for recent arrivals
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos MCALLEN, Texas (CNS) — Some had been on the road for weeks, others for days, and some entered looking haggard and sunburned with little more than the clothes they were wearing, some holding the hands of their children as a group of Catholic bishops joined …
Near immigration’s ground zero, bishops begin border trip with Mass
By Rhina Guidos MCALLEN, Texas (CNS) — The bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States have for weeks expressed outrage and condemned the government’s recent practice of separating children from a parent or a family member if they’re caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without legal documentation. On July 1, led …
Near immigration’s ground zero, bishops begin border trip with Mass
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos MCALLEN, Texas (CNS) — The bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States have for weeks expressed outrage and condemned the government’s recent practice of separating children from a parent or a family member if they’re caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without legal documentation. …
Another busy year ends for Supreme Court with all eyes on next term
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — “That’s a wrap” could have been said late morning June 27 at the U.S. Supreme Court after the court issued its last two decisions of the term. Except that it was not a wrap by a long shot. Just a …
First VIDEO posted June 29, 2018
By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The 15th annual report on the implementation of the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” shows a decrease in allegations of clergy sex abuse from the two previous years but also indicates the need for continued vigilance since charges were raised …
Pope at pallium Mass: Jesus wants disciples unafraid to aid others
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God wants his disciples to bring his mercy and love to everyone, everywhere on earth, which means it may cost them their “good name,” comfort and their life, Pope Francis said on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. …
A tale of two farm bills: House, Senate versions to be hashed out
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — With House passage of a new five-year farm bill in the rearview mirror and passage of a Senate version looming straight ahead, it’s going to take a House-Senate conference committee to reconcile what is turning out to be considerably different versions of the farm …
RFK’s faith three-dimensional in books, but two-dimensional on screen
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Kennedy King Memorial Initiative By Mark Pattison NEW YORK (CNS) — By all accounts, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, shot down June 5, 1968, as he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, was the most devout Catholic among his siblings. A former altar boy who sometimes spoke of …