Bahamian Catholic school administrator describes current desperation
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Halliwell, Royal Navy handout via Reuters By Tom Tracy MIAMI (CNS) — An interim parish administrator and assistant principal of the St. Francis de Sales Parish and School in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, Bahamas, said his school was in ruins and the island is in a desperate …
Update: Pope leaves Mozambique urging reconciliation, care for one another
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden MAPUTO, Mozambique (CNS) — When Jesus told his disciples to love one another and pray for their enemies, he meant it — even disciples in a nation like Mozambique, where political tensions have led to violence, war and death, Pope Francis said. The …
Church at Home: by Katie Sciba Verso l’Alto with Kids in Tow
There’s nothing on Earth like being in Sunday Mass. After sliding into the pew and getting settled with my family, I’m sure that, right there and then, I’m right where the Lord wants us to be. As a mom of five kids ranging from 2 to 9 years old, my …
Death toll in Bahamas likely higher than reported, local resident says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dante Carrer, Reuters By Tom Tracy MIAMI (CNS) — The Bahamanian government’s estimated death toll from Hurricane Dorian is likely to rise if and when members of the Haitian immigrant community are accounted for and when search and rescue operations begin in earnest, said an attorney in the …
Update: Bishop Malone will not resign, calls recent case ‘convoluted’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo said the majority of priests and parishioners in the diocese supported him and he would not resign over his handling of a situation involving two priests’ relationship with a seminarian. "I’m here because I feel …
Update: Pope in Mozambique talks peace, politics and young people’s dreams
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden MAPUTO, Mozambique (CNS) — With a courtesy and solemnity seldom seen at a gathering of opposing political leaders, Mozambican politicians came together a month before their general election to welcome Pope Francis and pledge to work for peace and the common good. The …
‘You have to have faith,’ Bahamian resident says of Dorian recovery
IMAGE: CNS photo/Adam Stanton, U.S. Coast Guard, via Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cathy Nottage, a resident of Elbow Cay — an 8-mile-long stretch in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas — has had to take a lot of things by faith in the days since Hurricane Dorian …
President, dancers, crowds welcome Pope Francis to Mozambique
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden MAPUTO, Mozambique (CNS) — Greeted with full military honors, traditional dances and huge crowds lining the streets, Pope Francis arrived in Mozambique Sept. 4 at the start of a weeklong trip to Africa. Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and two children offering flowers welcomed …
Pope tells French reporter he’s honored by attacks on his ministry
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MOZAMBIQUE (CNS) — Pope Francis told a reporter that it is "an honor when Americans attack me." The pope made his comments to Nicolas Seneze, a reporter from La Croix, the French Catholic daily newspaper, during the flight …
To protect the Amazon, we must first listen to its people
By WASHINGTON (CNS) — Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said recent public comments by President Donald Trump and others about Baltimore and the responses those remarks have generated "have deepened divisions and diminished our national life." "We must all take responsibility to reject language that ridicules, condemns, or vilifies another …