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‘Journeying together’ is essential to life of church, says Cardinal Wuerl

By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — The process of “journeying together” during the Catholic Church’s synods of bishops examining contemporary challenges on marriage and family life offers a map for the church’s outreach, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said Sept. 12. This process reflects not only the pontiff’s pastoral approach, but also offers a template for how priests and […]
Columnists

The prerogative power

By John Garvey

Urging the president to exercise prerogative power gives Congress a happy outcome without the attendant responsibility. But it hands back to the executive a responsibility that it took centuries to take away from him.

National

Religious freedom needs tolerance, civility

By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — Religious freedom requires tolerance of differing viewpoints — including the voices of nonreligious people — in addition to the free practice of faith to assure civility in American society, speakers said during a Brookings Institution program.   Furthermore, they said at the Sept. 13 event, intolerant comments by people of faith when it […]
National

Boston College says students are doing well after acid attack in France

BOSTON — Boston College said Sept. 18 that four of its university students studying abroad who were victims of an acid attack a day earlier in Marseille, France, were doing well.  The female students, all juniors, plan to remain in Europe for their studies and offered forgiveness to the woman who sprayed them with an […]
National

Judicial group launches digital ads opposing ‘religious litmus test’

WASHINGTON — The Washington-based Judicial Crisis Network Sept. 15 launched a 10-day digital ad campaign objecting to a U.S. Democratic senator grilling a Catholic judicial nominee Sept. 6 about what impact her faith would have on her interpretation of the law.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, spurred outrage about possible religious tests for judicial appointees with […]
Pope Francis

Pope Francis prays for victims of Mexico quake

By Catholic News Service

"Let us all raise our prayers together to God so that he may welcome into his bosom those who have lost their lives and comfort the wounded, their families and all those affected," Pope Francis said.

Columns

Why is incense used at Mass?

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle

I am a Catholic, but I have forgotten why incense is sometimes used at Mass. Please explain, especially with regard to its use at funerals. (Aumsville, Ore.)

Columns

A patron saint for the Personal Ordinariate

By Thomas J. Craughwell

Richeldis de Faverches had a vision of Mary in which the Blessed Mother showed her the Holy House of Nazareth, the home of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Mary asked Richeldis to build a replica of the Holy House in England. Mary promised, “Whoever seeks my help there will not go away empty-handed.”

Columns

Just or generous?

By Fr. Stanley J. Krempa

Some people, maybe even many, are puzzled by today’s Gospel parable. When we hear this story told by Jesus, we focus on the seeming injustice of those who worked for only one hour being paid the same as those who worked for a full day. The thrust of this parable, however, is not on justice but on God’s generosity even to the latecomer.

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