Pope, as ‘grandfather,’ urges Myanmar’s young to love and serve
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — Before ending his visit to Myanmar, Pope Francis turned to the nation’s young Catholics, urging them to pursue lives of faith, hope and love. Celebrating Mass Nov. 30 in Yangon’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, the pope asked the youths to serve …
Miami archbishop: Fixing immigration system doesn’t mean demonization
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jorge Duenes, Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said laws need to be changed to fix the country’s broken immigration system, but in the process, immigrants should not be demonized. “Fixing illegal immigration does not require the demonization of the so-called ‘illegals,’” …
Royal engagement announcement brings attention to Catholic school
IMAGE: CNS photo/Toby Melville, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — When the news broke Nov. 27 of Meghan Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry, reporters descended upon the Los Angeles Catholic school Markle attended: Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School. “They’ve been scaling the walls,” Callie Webb, communication director …
Buddhists, Christians must reclaim values that lead to peace, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — Christians and Buddhists are called by faith to overcome evil with goodness and violence with peace, Pope Francis said during a meeting with leaders of Myanmar’s Buddhist community. Quoting St. Francis of Assisi and Buddha, the pope insisted that in …
Question of Faith: Do we still believe in “limbo”?
Question of Faith Q: Back in the day, we were taught there was a “limbo” where infants went if they died before baptism. Does the church still teach that? A: As you mentioned, limbo, from the Latin word for “border,” was a theological hypothesis to explain the fate of unbaptized …
Jesus maps the path to peace, reconciliation, pope says
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) — Jesus’ love “is like a spiritual GPS” that guides people past the everyday obstacles of fear and pride and allows them to find their way to a relationship with God and with their neighbors, Pope Francis said. Christ’s message of …
Strong net neutrality protections called critical to faith community
By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications has urged the Trump administration to keep current net neutrality rules in place because an open internet, he said, is critical to the nation’s faith communities and how they interact with their members. “Without open internet principles …
U.S., Mexico Catholic bishops meet to renew their ‘Alta-Baja’ friendship
IMAGE: CNS photo/Aida Bustos, Diocese of San Diego By Aida Bustos SAN DIEGO (CNS) — Three archbishops and nine bishops representing at least 13 million Catholics from Sacramento to the Mexican coastal city of Ensenada have resurrected their “Alta-Baja” friendship, paving the way to potentially working together in the future. …
St. John Paul II Peace Prayer
O God, Creator of the universe, who extends your paternal concern over every creature and guides the events of history to the goal of salvation, we acknowledge your fatherly love when you break the resistance of mankind and, in a world torn by strife and discord, you make us ready …
Respect the rights of all groups, pope tells Myanmar’s leaders
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (CNS) — The plight of the ethnic Muslim minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine state was front and center in speeches by Pope Francis and Aung San Suu Kyi, but neither publicly used the word Rohingya. After private meetings Nov. 28 with Myanmarese President …