Use your vote to protect life: a message from Northern Ireland’s bishops
Northern Ireland’s voters should use their vote to uphold the right to life, not violate it, the Catholic bishops of the region said. “The social and moral teaching of the Church is clear, that it is never morally acceptable to support any policy that undermines the sacred inviolability of the …
Northern Ireland bishops urge voters to ask about abortion, poverty
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Mcerlane, EPA By Michael Kelly DUBLIN (CNS) — Northern Ireland’s Catholic bishops urged Massgoers to support candidates opposed to legalizing abortion in elections to the region’s power-sharing assembly May 5. In a wide-ranging pastoral statement ahead of the polls, the bishops also urged Catholics to lobby lawmakers …
Father Daniel Berrigan, advocate for justice, peace, poor, dies at 94
IMAGE: CNS files By NEW YORK (CNS) — Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, an early critic of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam who for years challenged the country’s reliance on military might, died April 30. He was 94. The author of several books of poetry and one of the first Catholic …
Reconciliation with God, others is key to peace, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For peace in the family, community and nation, people need to recognize their faults and ask forgiveness, Pope Francis told thousands of pilgrims, including hundreds of soldiers, sailors and police officers from around the world. “In your families, in the …
Trevi Fountain illuminated in remembrance of Christian martyrs
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Gaby Maniscalco ROME (CNS) — The Trevi Fountain, a Rome landmark, was lit up in red April 29 in a graphic commemoration of the thousands of modern Christians martyred for their faith. The event was sponsored by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, …
Cardinal DiNardo discusses marriage at LeBlond lecture
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, gave the 2016 LeBlond lecture audience an intimate view of the workings of the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family April 6 at the Athenaeum of Ohio. The lecture provided a preface to the release of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which was …
Father Joseph Raudabaugh dead at 78
Father Joseph R. Raudabaugh, a retired teacher, chaplain, and pastor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, died on Tuesday, April 26. He was born on August 2, 1937 in Piqua, Ohio. He did his preparatory studies at St. Gregory Seminary in Mt. Washington and studied theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of …
Father Patrick Sheridan, retired priest, dead at 70
Father Patrick L. Sheridan, a late vocation to the priesthood and a retired pastor, died on Thursday, April 28. He was born on May 11, 1945 in Columbus, Ohio. Father Sheridan received an A.B. degree from John Carroll University, Cleveland, in 1967. After a career as a Realtor, he received a …
World must respond to Islamic State genocide actions, U.N. conference hears
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz By Daphnie Vega UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — While religious freedom in much of the Middle East is under siege and the civil war in Syria seems to have no end in sight, Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, and others called the United …
Ethics must guide medical research, protect human dignity, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Moral and ethical concerns must guide medical research so it will always be at the service of protecting human life and dignity, Pope Francis said. In that way, education and research can strive “to serve higher values, such as solidarity, …