By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The hidden heroes of this world are those family members who still go to work and get the job done after staying up all night tending to a sick loved one, Pope Francis said. In fact, the family “has always been …

CNA/EWTN News The value and beauty of marriage, based on the complementarity of man and woman, is lamentably being challenged by “gender ideology,” Pope Francis warned the bishops of Puerto Rico on Monday. “The complementarity of man and woman, the crown of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender …

By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service  WASHINGTON — A veteran Catholic Relief Services financial official has resigned in the wake of report that he was in a same-sex marriage. Rick Estridge, vice president for overseas finance, stepped down after 16 years with the U.S. bishops’ overseas aid and development agency, saying …

By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service  WASHINGTON — The Catholic Universe Bulletin, which has delivered news and information about the Cleveland Diocese to parishioners for more than 140 years, will close its doors in July. The July 3 edition will be the last, said Robert Tayek, diocesan communications director. Word of the …

By John Shaughnessy Catholic News Service  INDIANAPOLIS — All the deaths and all the devastation that happened within seconds could have rocked the foundation of faith and resolve that Dr. Christine Groves had built in her 34 years of life. In fact, the April 25 earthquake in Nepal that killed more …

Staff Report Father Jeff Scheeler, provincial minister for the Franciscan Friars headquartered in Cincinnati, was one of more than 150 leaders of the Orders of Friars Minor who gathered in Assisi, Italy in May for the order’s month-long general chapter. Many of the leaders took time out to visit Rome and …

By Catholic News Service  SPOKANE, Wash. — Bishop Thomas A. Daly, installed as bishop of Spokane at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane May 20, urged members of the congregation not to get too caught up in technology. The bishop warned that technology can be a distraction especially …

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment will be titled “Laudato Sii” (Praised Be), a line from St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Creatures,” and will be released June 16, said the head of the Vatican publishing house. Salesian Father Giuseppe Costa, …

By Catholic News Service  LINCOLN, Neb.— Nebraska state senators overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto of a bill repealing capital punishment that had been supported by the state’s Catholic bishops. In a 30-19 vote May 27, the senators supported a bill that replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life …