Being Pro-Life: Foster Care: The Need is Great
By the time Jaymin was 12, he had lived in more places with more people than one can easily count – and all of them were drug users. The police finally caught up with his mother and her boyfriend, who were using heroin and neglecting their children, so Jaymin and his …
Editor’s Note: Called for a Purpose
In the many years I’ve been an editor for Catholic publications, the way all the stories and columns in a given issue line up to support one another still never ceases to amaze me. Yes, some of that is planning and assigning particular stories, but often the stories find us …
Ukrainian Catholic Church faces new struggles, archbishop says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Georgetown University By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Addressing an audience at Georgetown University Oct. 25, the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States said the world news in Washington is as "Ukrainian as it ever has been." But although he made reference to the …
Vatican publishes updated schedule for papal trip to Thailand, Japan
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mihoko Owada By VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After spending most of October at the Vatican working with the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon and dedicating the first two weeks of November to "ad limina" visits with bishops from the United States, Pope Francis will travel to Thailand …
Update: Bishops visit parishes in Texas helped by Catholic Home Missions
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Tyler Orsburn EL PASO, Texas (CNS) — With much national attention focused along the U.S.-Mexico border, members of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions visited three programs in the Diocese of El Paso that have been funded by the Catholic Home Mission Appeal. …
Photo Gallery: Little Saints at St. Cecila
On October 27, 2019, at St. Cecilia parish in Oakley had their wonderful little saints parade into church. Photos by Marta Misleh.
Busca al Senor por Arzobispo Dennis M. Schnurr
Todas las vocaciones dadas por Dios son importantes. ¡Es por eso que Dios las da! Nuestra Oración arquidiocesana por las V ocaciones menciona específicamente el llamado vocacion a una vida casta y soltera “y esposos y esposas fieles, que son un signo del amor de Cristo por Su Iglesia”. La …
Caring for common home requires deep ecological conversion, synod says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the Amazon calls for "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" that leads to new ways of caring for "our common home," according to the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. In …
Christians must shun self-worship, pope says at synod’s final Mass
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Poor people from the Amazon have shown that God’s creation must be treated "not as a resource to be exploited but as a home to be preserved, with trust in God," Pope Francis said. He celebrated Mass Oct. …
Vatican-U.S. ties benefit humanity, ambassador says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even if Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump have strong differences on the issue of migration, there are many other areas of common agreement where their joint efforts promote peace and human dignity, said the U.S. ambassador …