Advocates stress that U.S. has moral obligation to welcome refugees
By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — Leaders from six organizations want Americans and President Donald Trump to understand that refugees, especially those from war-torn Middle Eastern countries, are average people with careers, comfortable homes and loving families rather than see them as a monolithic threat to the United States. Their …
A picture says a thousand words: Catholic Schools Week Mass Dayton and Northern Region
Here are pictures from the 2017 Catholic Schools Week Mass held at St. Peter Parish in Huber Heights. Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr Celebrant. Photos by Jeff Unroe
Reject inertia of ‘Mannequin Challenge,’ reach out to refugees, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When it comes to helping the poor, the marginalized and refugees, Pope Francis urged Catholics not to mimic the “Mannequin Challenge” by just looking on, frozen and immobile. The video version of his prayer intention for February begins …
Bishop Leibold a six-time STEM leader
Dayton elementary school recognized for STEM education For the sixth year in a row, Bishop Leibold School in Dayton has been awarded the Governor’s Thomas Edison Award for Excellence in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Education. It is one of four schools in Dayton and Kettering that received the …
Prelates raise concern over Trump decision to keep Obama executive order
By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairmen of two bishops’ committees expressed disappointment Feb. 1 over President Donald Trump’s decision to retain a 2014 executive order by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that bans federal discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity against federal employees and workers for federal …
Digitization project preserving century of Catholic newspapers, newsfeeds
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Only pack rats would save copies of old newspapers. Or so you would think. But a consortium of librarians and archivists are preserving the Catholic news from the last century. As newspapers age, their pages get more brittle and fragile. …
Judge Neil Gorsuch nominated to fill Supreme Court vacancy
IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Reynolds, EPA By WASHINGTON (CNS) — President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been empty since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February. Gorsuch is a man the country needs, Trump said in announcing his …
Bishops say refugee ban raises deep concerns over religious freedom
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrew Kelly, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairmen of three U.S. bishops’ committees Jan. 31 expressed solidarity with the Muslim community and expressed deep concern over religious freedom issues they said President Donald Trump’s refugee ban raises. Trump’s executive memorandum of Jan. 27 “has generated fear and …
In accused priest killer’s case, bishops urge mercy, reject death penalty
By AUGUSTA, Ga. (CNS) — Saying “justice needs to be tamed by mercy,” Bishop Felipe J. Estevez of St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the state of Georgia to drop the death penalty in the case of accused priest killer Steven J. Murray. “We have …
