Human rights degree equips students for world ahead, graduate says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Larry Burgess, University of Dayton By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Dominic Sanfilippo, one of 12 students who graduated with a degree in human rights May 8 at the University of Dayton in Ohio, said he has grown accustomed to explaining his major to people over the years. …
Pope tells women religious Vatican will study women deacons
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world that he would set up a commission to study the New Testament deaconesses and he also insisted more can and should be done to involve lay and …
Military mantra, Catholic faith drove terminally ill woman to meet the pope
IMAGE: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The military mantra of “suck it up” and an intense love for the Catholic faith drove Cheryl Tobin to reach new heights — the cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica and a personal blessing from Pope Francis. Despite having stage 4 …
Throwback Thursday: Pope John Paul II survives second assassination attempt
This history of the Church is sometimes marked by violent episodes. Such was the case 34 years ago today, May 12, 1982, when Pope St. John Paul II survived a second assassination attempt. The first attempt on Pope John Paul II’s life came a year earlier, May 13, 1981. The pontiff …
Cardinal Burke speaks at Sacred Heart Radio 15th anniversary event
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and former Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was the keynote speaker May 11 at the Sacred Heart Radio 15th Anniversary Banquet at the Sharonville Convention Center. His Eminence spoke for 40 minutes, reflecting on the Gospel …
Philippine priest says Duterte’s win is reminder ‘people want change’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alex Hofford, EPA By Simone Orendain MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s win in May 9 national elections was “a strong reminder that people want change,” said Father Anton Pascual, president of Radio Veritas, the country’s largest Catholic radio network. Father Pascual told Catholic News Service May …
God doesn’t barter, rewarding the good, punishing the bad, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Salvation has nothing to do with the tidy business of bartering — earning God’s love in return for good behavior, Pope Francis said. “If you do well you get a reward; if you do poorly you get punished. This is …
Religious in danger of adopting ‘first-world lifestyle,’ sister says
ROME — The leaders of the world’s communities of Catholic women religious were warned against accepting an “entitlement creep” that numbs them from confronting poverty and environmental destruction. At the opening session of a triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General in Rome, U.S. Sister Carol Zinn, a a member …
Priests seek to show God’s beauty through paschal candle artistry
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion By Sean Gallagher GREENFIELD, Ind. (CNS) — As Easter season ends, one reminder of it that will remain in churches throughout the rest of the liturgical year is the Easter candle, also known as the paschal candle. Throughout the liturgical year, Easter candles are …
Vatican funds job-creation project for refugees in Jordan
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jamal Nasrallah, EPA By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican is funding a job-creation program for Iraqi refugees in Jordan, a country that is hosting close to 1.5 million refugees, but is struggling to provide work for them. With $150,000 donated to the Vatican by visitors …