Heavy damage makes assessment tough after Haima slams Philippines
IMAGE: CNS photo/Erik De Castro, Reuters By Alastair Wanklyn TOKYO (CNS) — Heavy damage was reported to homes and farm land in the northern Philippines Oct. 20 after the strongest storm in three years struck overnight. Typhoon Haima barreled into northern Cagayan and Isabella provinces, ripping the roofs off homes …
Rangers help keep visitors safe, teach nature, history in must-see parks
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy Wiechec By Nancy Wiechec GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNS) — Kristen Dragoo came to Grand Teton National Park in 2002 for a college internship and never left. Armed with a degree in natural resources and environmental management, Dragoo has worked her way up the ladder to become …
Life Award for philanthropist who prefers to avoid the spotlight
by Gail Finke Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati gave its Life Award to Joe Brinck II, who normally tries to stay behind the scenes, at its banquet this month. “I tried to keep it low-key!” Executive Director Paula Westwood said after introducing Jerry Horn, legal counsel for Priests for …
Fighting over liturgy distorts purpose of Mass, papal liturgist says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When a choir director and parish priest differ over liturgical music, the choir should follow in good faith the wishes of the priest for the sake of unity, said the papal liturgist. When it comes to celebrating the liturgy, “we …
Papal summer residence opens to the public for the first time
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Pope Francis is throwing open the doors to the papal apartment — including the bedroom where popes have slept — in the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo. The palace was for centuries the summer residence of the Roman …
For vocations, one must go out, listen, call, pope says
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In its ministry to young people, and especially in vocations promotion work, church workers must step out of the sacristy and take seriously the questions and concerns of the young, Pope Francis said. Young people are searching for meaning, and the best response …
Companions of St. James Italy Pilgrimage 2016
In this Year of Mercy, below are pictures from Italy as the Companions of St. James travel throughout Italy. For the pictorial tour of the Companions of St. James Archdiocese of Cincinnati Pilgrimage to Italy (Part 2), Click Here The Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli is the …
By virtue of Baptism
Dear Missionary Disciples, As our Holy Father was initiating the Holy Year of Mercy, he explained that the Church must “keep alive the desire to know how to welcome the numerous signs of the tenderness which God offers to the whole world and, above all, to those who suffer, …
Catholic log chapel is Grand Teton wonder that ‘evangelizes,’ says deacon
IMAGE: Nancy Wiechec By Nancy Wiechec GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (CNS) — Mary Morris was lured to the Chapel of the Sacred Heart inside of the national park by a small wooden road sign. “I didn’t know the chapel was here,” the Hampshire, Illinois, resident told Catholic News Service …
The beauty of Grand Teton National Park is ‘it belongs to the people’
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy Wiechec By Nancy Wiechec MOOSE, Wyo. (CNS) — Shirley Craighead knows a thing or two about grizzly bears. She and the bears live in the same place. “I live here and love it!” Craighead emphatically told Catholic News Service in her home in Moose, just shy of the …