Spring Sports Report: Alter, Elder brought home volleyball titles
The following is a post-season recap of spring sports results for Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. A dynasty is underway. Archbishop Alter High School won its third consecutive state title May 28 at the Ohio High School Boys Volleyball Association State Championships at Capital University. Alter won …
Pope thanks circus performers for bringing joy to often dark world
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Meeting with acrobats, clowns, carnival workers, street performers, musicians and magicians, Pope Francis thanked the artists for bringing beauty and joy to an often dark, sad world. “You cannot imagine what good you do, the good you sow,” he said …
Special forces: Graduates head home armed with skills to fight abuse
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church has launched a new kind of “special forces” in the fight against child abuse. Nineteen men and women from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas became the first graduates awarded special certification in the safeguarding of minors — an initiative …
Throwback Thursday: Historic papal election, itty bitty headline
For this #ThrowbackThursday, we bring you the first announcement of a new pope in The Catholic Telegraph’s history. Pope Gregory XVI was elected in February of 1831, eight months before this newspaper’s first edition, making the conclave of 1846 the first to be covered in these pages. On this date, June 16, …
Granite and clay: Creativity, patience shape sculptor for priesthood
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) — In the small dormitory room that smelled of moist modelling clay, dozens of statues of a laughing Jesus lined wooden shelves against a wall. The small plaster statuettes showed the Lord reclining on the ground against a rock, his eyes pinched …
We must recognize dignity of all, Orlando bishop says at prayer vigil
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrea Navarro, Florida Catholic By Christine Young and Teresa Peterson ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) — In Orlando and major cities around the nation and the world, people gathered June 13 to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the shooting rampage in Orlando the previous day. About 700 …
Florida Catholic Charities workers console, support victims’ families
By Christine Young and Teresa Peterson ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) — Since the worst shooting attack in America occurred June 12, Catholic Charities of Central Florida has been working in the background to help victims, survivors and family members in whatever way possible. Just hours after the shooting at a gay …
‘Laudato Si” at one year: Catholics inspired to act on climate change
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dan Peled, EPA By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — Thinking green is not easy. Nor is it always cheap. But for St. Michael Parish in Poway, California, north of San Diego, parishioners are already seeing the benefits — spiritual, financial and environmental — of a $1.3 million investment …
Hostility, indifference make us blind to those in need, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Indifference and hostility can blind Christians from recognizing Jesus in those most in need, Pope Francis said. “This indifference and hostility can turn into aggression” toward people often marginalized by society, the pope said June 15 during his weekly …
Vatican dialogue with U.S. women religious continues, cardinal says
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — More than a year after the conclusion of the Vatican’s apostolic visitation of U.S. communities of women religious, the Vatican began asking more than a dozen orders to send their superiors to Rome to discuss concerns that surfaced. “We did a very positive …