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Now is time to build new world without inequality, injustice, pope says
Posted on 04/19/2020 07:58 AM (CNS Blog)
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — As the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk it will be struck by an even worse virus — that of selfish indifference, Pope Francis said. This … Continue reading
Puerto Rico: ‘An unprecedented level of need’
Posted on 11/6/2017 11:35 AM (CNS Blog)
Catholic News Service was the first major Catholic news organization to send a photographer and a reporter to tour the island and document the efforts of the church and other organizations to help many of the people far from the capital of San Juan. Continue reading
Historic Tomb of Michelangelo and altarpiece in dire need of repairs
Posted on 10/11/2017 06:19 AM (CNS Blog)
By Matthew Fowler ROME (CNS) — The historic tomb of Michelangelo and the Buonarroti family altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence are in dire need of cleaning and restoration due to sustained damage over the past 50 … Continue reading
A look back at the Legion of Decency
Posted on 08/17/2017 10:10 AM (CNS Blog)
By Mark Pattison and Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) — It’s summertime and the movies are plentiful. As everyone knows the summer movie season is a big one for Hollywood, and when it comes to a close, it is followed closely … Continue reading
Jamboree called ‘life-changing event’ for youths, adults
Posted on 07/28/2017 17:29 PM (CNS Blog)
Here’s a dispatch from Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia sent earlier this week by Msgr. John B. Brady from the national Scout jamboree, which closed today. A retired priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, he became … Continue reading
Word to Life — Sunday Scripture readings, July 23, 2017
Posted on 07/21/2017 00:33 AM (CNS Blog)
July 23, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A. Readings: 1) Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 2) Romans 8:26-27 Gospel: Matthew 13:24-33 By Sharon K. Perkins Catholic News … Continue reading
John C. Quinn tended to the ‘least of these’ in U.S. newsrooms
Posted on 07/14/2017 14:55 PM (CNS Blog)
WASHINGTON (CNS) – I’m convinced that around the country, and perhaps the world, there are many letters similar to the one I received in the mail some 18 years ago. It was written by hand and it ended with a … Continue reading
Some cheese with your ‘whine’: Pope ‘establishes’ complaint-free zone
Posted on 07/14/2017 09:41 AM (CNS Blog)
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis left a not-so-subtle message outside his office in the Domus Sanctae Marthae residence: anyone who is thinking of making a fuss, leave your whining at the door. … Continue reading
Word to Life — Sunday Scripture readings, July 16, 2017
Posted on 07/13/2017 20:33 PM (CNS Blog)
July 16, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle A. Readings: 1) Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalm 65:10-14 2) Romans 8:18-23 Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23 By Jeff Hedglen Catholic News Service It seems as though every time … Continue reading
Word to Life — Sunday Scripture readings, July 9, 2017
Posted on 07/7/2017 16:30 PM (CNS Blog)
The Scriptures this weekend contain a familiar, but difficult text. “Take my yoke upon you,” Jesus says. “For my yoke is easy and my burden light.” Continue reading