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 …

Local Children of Mary Sisters meet others waiting for the Eucharistic procession to begin (CT Photo/Gail Finke)
In early July, The Archdiocese of Cincinnati had a large number of leaders attend the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops Catholic Convocation of Leaders. Our own Gail Finke was in Orlando for this historic event. Here’s the convocation in pictures: For more photos, see the photo gallery on our …

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 …