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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Lent is a good time to ask God’s help in throwing off any spiritual “drowsiness” that dulls a person’s prayer life and attentiveness to the needs of others, Pope Francis said. “It is a period in which God wants to awaken us from our inner lethargy, from this sleepiness that does not […]
National
By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON — In a March 11 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ended a challenge by abortion clinics to a state law that bans most abortions in Texas. The court ruled that state officials, including licensing officials, do not have the ability to enforce the abortion law, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, […]
Local
By Zoey Maraist
Future Catholics prepare to enter the church at Easter.
Local
By Leslie Miller
When God told Sonja Corbitt he wanted her to learn how to rest, her first response was emphatic. “I am not tired!” But she said, “I realized I was not at rest. Rest in the Bible is not inactivity, the rest is God himself.” Corbitt, Stephanie Burke of the Avila Foundation and Bishop Michael F. […]
Columnists
By Ann M. Augherton
From the archives Every year around St. Patrick’s Day I bake some Irish soda bread. I don’t have an old family recipe from my Irish grandmothers, so I usually pull a cookbook off the shelf and settle on a tried recipe with what I thought were the basic ingredients — flour, butter, baking soda, salt, […]
Global
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — The call to prayer is an “active mission,” one that does not take a believer from the world but prompts the believer to bring to God the pain and concerns of the world — including the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said. “To pray is to bring the beating heart of current affairs […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
KOLKATA, India — The Missionaries of Charity have elected Sister Joseph Michael, former secretary to St. Teresa of Kolkata, as superior general of order.
Art
Arts
By Linda Petersen
SPRINGVILLE, Utah — A love of drawing and an affinity for the art of doodling has led Gabby Gauchay to an unexpected vocation as well as recognition in The Catholic Woman, the quarterly magazine of the National Council of Catholic Women. Gauchay, 28, began doodling images of the saints after she and her husband, Jon, […]
National
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON — The chairmen of several U.S. bishops’ committees and the head of March for Life March 11 praised the U.S. senators who voted to pass the government’s omnibus bill with the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life provisions included in it. The bishops also commended lawmakers for including “critical humanitarian assistance for the victims of […]
