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Reports say Callista Gingrich will be nominated as Vatican ambassador
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Gingrich Productions By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Callista Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, will be Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, two U.S. news outlets are reporting. The New York Times and CNN reported May 14 that the official …
Vatican, Jewish museums explore menorah in art and dark legend
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome are exploring together the significance of the menorah, although they also give a nod to the centuries-old legend that the Vatican is hiding the golden menorah from the Temple of Jerusalem. A two-part exhibition, …
Returning from Fatima, pope says he has doubts about Medjugorje
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL (CNS) — While the investigations into the very first alleged apparitions at Medjugorje in must continue, Pope Francis said he has doubts about claims that Mary continues to appear in the village of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Asked May 13 …
Fatima seers become church’s youngest non-martyred saints
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) — Standing before the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pope Francis canonized two shepherd children who saw Mary at Fatima, but more importantly, he said, they heeded the call to pray for sinners and trust in the Lord. …
Fatima brings hope for peace in suffering Venezuela, pilgrim says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) — Our Lady of Fatima’s message of peace to a country suffering from war and persecution resonates today just as it did a century ago, a Venezuelan pilgrim said. Jose Antonio dos Santos told Catholic News Service May 13 that …
Pope: Honor the believing, tender Mary, not a ‘plaster statue’
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) — Mary’s example of believing and following Jesus is what matters most; she cannot be some image “of our own making” who Christians barter with for mercy, Pope Francis said. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Marian …
Latin American bishops appeal for aid for food-short Venezuela
IMAGE: CNS photo/Miguel Guitierrez, EPA By Ezra Fieser SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) — Bishops from across Latin America condemned the ongoing violence in Venezuela and called for the church to find ways to provide charity to the South American country amid food shortages that have left thousands hungry. “We …
Pilgrimage to Fatima a time of prayer, encounter, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves LEIRIA, Portugal (CNS) — Pope Francis said his two-day pilgrimage to Fatima would be a time of prayer and encounter with Jesus and Mary. The visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima “is a bit special,” he told reporters aboard …
Anti-death penalty activist says she wrestled with issue and ‘God won’
By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Marietta Jaeger-Lane has faced the death penalty issue head-on. In 1973, when her 7-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a family camping trip in Montana and murdered by her captor, the mother of five said she would have killed the person who did it with …
Convocation delegate said becoming Catholic was something he ‘had to do’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Isaiah Burroughs, a 20-year-old student at The Catholic University of America in Washington, gets an idea in his head, he follows through with it pretty much immediately. When he was praying in the university chapel during a freshman retreat …