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The Dinner

This trenchant morality tale about the nature of evil and mankind's savage underpinnings turns out to be as infuriatingly dense and labyrinthine as Dutch author Herman Koch's 2009 novel.

Local

Prayer shawls bring comfort to the ill and grieving

By Elizabeth A. Elliott

Sometimes you just need a hug.Two children attending their mother’s funeral longed for comfort. They found it in a prayer shawl they received that day.   

National

Anti-death penalty activist says she wrestled with issue and ‘God won’

By Carol Zimmerman
WASHINGTON — Marietta Jaeger-Lane has faced the death penalty issue head-on. In 1973, when her 7-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a family camping trip in Montana and murdered by her captor, the mother of five said she would have killed the person who did it with her “bare hands.” “But my Catholic faith calls me […]
Local

Cardinal Müller reflects on faith, family

By Michael Flach

As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller works closely with Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals to promote and preserve the heritage of revelation handed down by Jesus Christ.

National

U.S. urged to be more vigorous in protecting religious freedom globally

By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — A U.S. congressman told attendees at a Washington summit on Christian persecution that “more than ever before, vigorous U.S. leadership and diplomacy are needed to address religious freedom violations globally.” “Religious persecution is festering and exploding around the world. What has been unconscionable for decades, centuries, has gotten worse,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-New […]
Pope Francis

Fatima seers become church’s youngest non-martyred saints

By Junno Arocho Esteves
FATIMA, Portugal Standing before the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pope Francis canonized two shepherd children who saw Mary at Fatima, but more importantly, he said, they heeded the call to pray for sinners and trust in the Lord.   “We declare and define Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto as saints,” […]
Global

Latin American bishops appeal for aid in Venezuela

By Ezra Fieser
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Bishops from across Latin America condemned the ongoing violence in Venezuela and called for the church to find ways to provide charity to the South American country amid food shortages that have left thousands hungry.   “We are worried and pained by the deaths, the violence, the lack of the […]
Pope Francis

Pope says he has doubts about Medjugorje

By Junno Arocho Esteves
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL — While the investigations into the very first alleged apparitions at Medjugorje in must continue, Pope Francis said he has doubts about claims that Mary continues to appear in the village of Bosnia-Herzegovina.   Asked May 13 about the authenticity of the Marian apparitions, which reportedly began in 1981, […]

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