IMAGE: CNS photo/Andy Telli, Tennessee Register By Andy Telli NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — Chris Shafer grew up as a “nominal Catholic,” and she wasn’t even sure she still believed in God in the mid-1970s when she moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where her husband, Doug, was stationed in the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Andy Telli, Tennessee Register By Andy Telli NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — Chris Shafer grew up as a “nominal Catholic,” and she wasn’t even sure she still believed in God in the mid-1970s when she moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where her husband, Doug, was stationed in the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Garcia Rawlins, Reuters By Cody Weddle CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) — Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino said the nation’s government must take the blame for at least 10 deaths related to a controversial election. “This is the responsibility of the president of the republic, the high command, and the ministers,” …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Garcia Rawlins, Reuters By Cody Weddle CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) — Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino said the nation’s government must take the blame for at least 10 deaths related to a controversial election. “This is the responsibility of the president of the republic, the high command, and the ministers,” …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) — After the Senate Republicans failed to get enough votes to pass a “skinny” repeal to remove parts of the Affordable Care Act in the early hours of July 28, the U.S. Catholic Church’s lead spokesman on the issue said the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcel van Dorst – MaRicMedia, EPA By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Human trafficking is “brutal, savage and criminal,” Pope Francis said, but often it seems like people see it as a sad, but normal fact of life. “I want to call everyone to make a commitment …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcel van Dorst – MaRicMedia, EPA By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Human trafficking is “brutal, savage and criminal,” Pope Francis said, but often it seems like people see it as a sad, but normal fact of life. “I want to call everyone to make a commitment …

IMAGE: CNS/family handout, courtesy Featureworld By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — Charlie Gard, the British baby whose legal battle caught the attention of the world, died July 28, just over a week before his first birthday, his family announced. Connie Yates, the baby’s mother, issued a brief statement saying: …

IMAGE: CNS/family handout, courtesy Featureworld By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — Charlie Gard, the British baby whose legal battle caught the attention of the world, died July 28, just over a week before his first birthday, his family announced. Connie Yates, the baby’s mother, issued a brief statement saying: …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) — After the Senate Republicans failed to get enough votes to pass a “skinny” repeal to remove parts of the Affordable Care Act in the early hours of July 28, a U.S. bishop said the “task of reforming the health care …