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By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement, the court released an order requesting that additional briefs be submitted showing if and how contraceptive insurance coverage could be obtained by employees through their insurance companies without directly involving the religious employers objecting to […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium,”) Pope Paul VI proposed that it include a statement that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone.” The suggestion was referred to the Council’s Theological Commission, which, perhaps to Pope […]
National
By Jill Kruse
DUBUQUE, Iowa – As Cari Campbell scrolled through the content of her Facebook newsfeed one day last August, the post of a friend living in Oregon caught her attention. Campbell could not have foreseen at the time how quickly that social media post would turn her world upside down or the way in which God […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
In 1871, two boys in the town of Pontmain, France, saw a vision of Mary. Their parents sent for the local teacher, who brought three schoolchildren with her. Only the youths could see the Blessed Virgin, dressed in a blue garment, covered with golden stars and carrying a red crucifix. As members of the town […]
National
By Tanya Connor and William T. Clew
WORCESTER, Massachusetts (CNS) – A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was “a martyr of the truth.” Father Mulumba Kambale Matsongani, the only Congolese Assumptionist now living in the Worcester Diocese, shared memories of Assumptionist Father Vincent Machozi, who taught him in […]
Local
By Zoey Dimauro
Each year on Good Friday, all Christian faiths mourn the death of Christ, but at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, members of four distinct Christian denominations – Catholic, Baptist, Methodist and Lutheran – meet to meditate on the crucifixion of Christ together. “We’re gathered from our own faiths, but (once there) we […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
It was the end of the day at St. Bernadette School in Springfield, and most students were flooding out the doors. But not everyone was so eager to leave. A group of second- and third-grade girls clamored up the steps to a top floor classroom for Virtue Club, a program that teaches about virtues in […]
Pope Francis
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Entering in silence and lying prostrate on the floor in front of the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis commemorated Jesus’ death on the cross. Thousands of people joined the pope as he presided over the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion March 25. The solemn liturgy proceeded with the notable […]
Art
By Nora Hamerman
Carlo Crivelli, an artist of the Italian Renaissance who worked on the eastern coast of the peninsula in the late 15th and early 16th century, had his own insightful ways of depicting familiar scenes from the Gospel. Two of his interpretations stand out in the exhibit currently on view at the Walters Art Museum in […]
National
By Catholic News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world’s largest religious media operations, died March 27 at age 92. Feisty and outspoken, she was a major controversial figure in the U.S. church in the closing decades of the 20th century. At the same time, […]
