DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND VICTIMS OF ABUSE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS SCHEDULE OF PRAYER Friday, September 14, 2018 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place throughout the day except during the celebration of Mass. St. Peter in Chains Cathedral 325 West 8th …

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Water is a gift of God that makes life possible and yet millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water, and rivers, seas and oceans continue to be polluted, Pope Francis said. “Care for water sources and water basins is …

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI ever was …

Deacon Joseph Coll A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon Joseph Coll was celebrated July 21 at St. Columban Church in Loveland. Deacon Coll died July 9 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1982. He had been at St. Columban for 42 years, 35 of …

Pope Francis Intention for September Young People in Africa: That young people in Africa may have access to education and work in their own countries.

IMAGE: CNS photo/Jenna Teter, The Texas By David Sedeno DALLAS (CNS) — Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns has asked Pope Francis for an extraordinary synod to address issues in the latest Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, including “abuse of power, clericalism, accountability and the understanding of transparency in the church.” …

Each year, Greater Cincinnati children received a new bed of their own at the Day to Dream event at St. Vincent de Paul.

In the last few months, national news stories have outlined new allegations of abuse and misconduct involving bishops, priests, and even seminarians from various dioceses. It’s hard to read about. Very hard. It can test the faith of even the strongest of Catholics.      Yet, you’re still Catholic. Why?  …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Royal Commission By SYDNEY, Australia (CNS) — Australia’s Catholic bishops and religious orders, responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, accepted 98 percent of its suggestions, but said they could not accept recommendations that would violate the seal of confession. “We …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Jim West By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Echoing what Pope Francis said during a Mass in May, the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said, “The struggle of working people, of the poor” is not first a “social or political …