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National
By Jay Nies
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — “God forgive me, I hope he’s in heaven,” Benedictine Father Kenneth Reichert said about the man who entered Conception Abbey 20 years ago, pointed a semi-automatic MAK-90 rifle at him and fired twice. Two Benedictine monks were killed that day, Father Philip Schuster and Brother Damian Larson, and Father Reichert and […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
HONG KONG — The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to expand its apparatus to monitor and curb religious activities in cyberspace through training and deploying hundreds of “auditors” across the country, triggering concerns from rights groups. Under the guidance of the Communist Party, the Ethnic and Religious Commission of Guangdong Province in southern China held […]
Art
By Maria Wiering
PAUL, Minn. — With a needle and thread and painstaking attention, Jessica Gokey “paints” images of flora and fauna, two tiny beads at a time. As she has developed her art over the past decade, her elaborate work has earned her a Minnesota Historical Society fellowship and attracted private collectors. Now it’s garnered its highest […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said he plans to name two women to the committee that helps him choose bishops for the world’s Latin-rite dioceses. In an interview July 2 with the Reuters news agency, the pope seemed to indicate the women would be members, not consultants or staff members, of the Dicastery for Bishops, […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — In the Supreme Court’s 2021-2022 term, which concluded June 30, it issued four opinions on religious liberty cases, siding with religion each time. Two of the cases involved prayer and all of them looked at the exclusion of religion. The cases involved chaplains praying with death-row prisoners during executions; a Christian flag flying […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
How to obtain relics? Q. Please forgive my awful handwriting. I have multiple sclerosis and also Parkinson’s disease and can no longer do very well on a typewriter or computer. My question is: Why is it so hard to obtain first-class relics? (Also, do I need permission from my bishop to obtain them?) I am now […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Think about a time when you struggled, when you suffered, when you strained to stay upright in a storm. Did you pray? Did you call out to God and ask him to walk with you along the hard path? If you did, was he very near to you, or was he some vague, abstract, last-ditch […]
Columns
By Susan T. Muskett
In May, the Fairfax County School Board agreed to solicit feedback from parents on proposed Family Life Education (FLE) sex-ed initiatives that would significantly affect the innocence of children in Fairfax public elementary schools and advance a blurring of all distinctions between male and female biological sex. The parental input will take place this fall. […]
National
By Catholic News Service
CHICAGO — Saying he watched “in horror” news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims. At least six people died and more than two dozen others were injured. What should have been a peaceful celebration of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a wide-ranging interview with the Reuters news agency, Pope Francis condemned abortion, dismissed the idea that he’s preparing to resign and said he still hopes to be able to visit Russia and Ukraine in the fall. Pope Francis also told Philip Pullella, the Reuters’ Vatican correspondent, that while the Vatican’s 2018 […]
