Update: As immigration woes rise, lawmakers can’t agree on solutions
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Jason Miller, Franciscan Action Network By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bipartisan disagreement on how to fix the country’s immigration system led to failure once again as lawmakers on Capitol Hill turned down one immigration bill June 21 and postponed a vote on a second proposal, which …
Church now facing its own #MeToo moment, says Australian archbishop
IMAGE: CNS Photo/Robert Duncan By Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) — In the wake of historic allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up in countries around the world, the Catholic Church is experiencing the same challenge that has brought a reckoning to those who used their authority to abuse or silence …
Breaking new ground in Catholic education
DePaul Cristo Rey High School expansion will add classrooms — and services By Eileen Connelly, OSU This story first appeared in our July, 2018 print issue A major transformation underway at the Clifton campus of DePaul Cristo Rey High School (DPCR) will enhance students’ quality of life and further efforts …
Lehman Catholic High School announces new President position
School President will guide Lehman Catholic to stay competitive for the future. Sidney, Ohio, June 22, 2018 — The ever-changing academic needs of our students and the demands on school leadership are more challenging today than ever before. To ensure the continued success of Lehman Catholic High School in today’s …
Pope: Individual bishops must decide about Communion in mixed marriages
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM GENEVA (CNS) — The question of allowing Protestants married to Catholics to receive Communion at Mass in special cases has to be decided by each individual bishop and cannot be decided by a bishops’ conference, Pope Francis told …
Forgiveness turns evil into good, pope tells Catholics in Geneva
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz GENEVA (CNS) — At the end of a day dedicated to celebrating 70 years of an ecumenical fellowship forged by the World Council of Churches, Pope Francis turned to the region’s Catholics, reminding them of what lies at the heart of the faith. …
Broken world needs Christian unity, pope tells Christian leaders at WCC
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz GENEVA (CNS) — Not only God, but today’s broken, divided world is begging for unity among Christians, Pope Francis said on an ecumenical pilgrimage to Geneva. “Our differences must not be excuses,” he said, because as Christ’s disciples, Christians can still pray together, …
Abide conference gives youth a “way” to grow in their faith
Sixty-five young people gathered last week with youth ministers, priests, deacons, Children of Mary sisters, and 15 college assistants for a “full immersion” conference on what it means to be a missionary disciple of Jesus Christ. At the end of the gathering all 100 engaged on hands-on ministry in downtown …
Cardinal McCarrick’s 60 years of ministry in church had global impact
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Vatican has told Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington, that he can no longer exercise any public ministry after an allegation that he abused a teenager 47 years ago was found credible. While maintaining his innocence, the cardinal …
Trump signs executive order stopping family separation policy
IMAGE: CNS photo/Leah Millis, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order June 20 that halts his administration’s family separation policy for families who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The executive order seeks to work around a 1997 consent decree that bars the …