U.S. bishops call for solidarity with Middle East victims of violence
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mohammed Badra, EPA By WASHINGTON (CNS) — Christians and all people in the Middle East need the solidarity of the U.S. Catholic Church, said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the head of the Catholic Relief Services board. “A concern for …
MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN TUITION AID APPROVED
More than 1,200 families will be offered Catholic elementary school scholarships next week, thanks to an expenditure exceeding $1 million from a new tuition assistance fund in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The needs-based awards for the 2017-18 academic year are the first in a permanent program funded by the Archdiocese’s …
Bishop Vasquez welcomes federal appeals court ruling on refugee ban
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kamil Krzaczynski, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration welcomed a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries that also temporarily suspended the country’s refugee …
Health care is not a business, but a service to life, pope says
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A nation’s health care system cannot be run simply as a business because human lives are at stake, Pope Francis said. “If there is a sector in which the ‘throwaway culture’ demonstrates its most painful consequences, it is the health care sector,” the …
Don’t dialogue with the devil, pope says at Mass
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Satan is a liar and a cheat who promises people everything then leaves them with nothing, Pope Francis said at his early morning Mass. In his homily Feb. 10, Pope Francis contrasted the way Eve interacted with the serpent in the garden of …
Scenes of recent outreach trip to Honduras
Several Archdiocese of Cincinnati Staff headed to Honduras for the annual Our Lady of Suyapa Mass. Our Lady of Suyapa was honored in Honduras on February 2nd of each year, until Pope Pius XII officially declared Our Lady of Suyapa Patroness of the Republic of Honduras, and chose February 3rd …
Faith, love and flexibility: Longtime married couples share all three
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ed Langlois, Catholic Sentinel By Ed Langlois NEWBERG, Ore. (CNS) — A common faith, thinking as a team, being flexible and arguing candidly but respectfully describe some of the keys to a strong marriage for Claude and Yvette Arrington, named Oregon’s longest married couple by Worldwide Marriage Encounter. …
World needs women, not for what they do, but who they are, pope says
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The exploitation of any person is a crime, but the exploitation of a woman “destroys harmony” in the world, Pope Francis said. Commenting on the Genesis story of God creating Eve, Pope Francis told people at his early morning Mass Feb. 9 that …
Pope: Speechless before horror of Holocaust, pray it never happen again
IMAGE: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Anti-Semitism is absolutely contrary to Christianity, and the church has a duty to denounce and repel such hatred, Pope Francis said. There are no words, however, that could ever adequately address “the horrors of cruelty and sin” of the Holocaust, …
Celebrating marriage: Newlyweds look to pope for blessings, strength
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Each week dozens of newlyweds, dressed again in their wedding gowns and tuxedoes, come to the Vatican to receive a special papal blessing as they begin their lives together. “It’s always been a dream of mine, since I was …