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By Russell Shaw
Does the Supreme Court decision constitutionalizing same-sex marriage mean we’ve lost the culture war and need to raise the white flag? (As should be obvious, “we” here are traditional Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and others who hold similar views on social issues.) The Jesuit weekly America thinks that the answer is yes. An editorial in the […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was the first pilgrim to sign up for World Youth Day to be held in Krakow, Poland, launching the opening of registration. Accompanied by two Polish teenagers who wore World Youth Day 2016 T-shirts, the pope had to make a couple of attempts pressing the screen of a tablet before […]
National
By Patricia L. Guilfoyle | Catholic News Service
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A broad digital media project to coincide with Pope Francis’ visit this fall to the United States aims to recruit and interact with young people, particularly those who do not think of themselves as religious. These “nones,” as researchers have called them, are especially found among the millennial generation, generally defined as […]
Local
By Richard Szczepanowski | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In anticipation of Pope Francis’ September visit to Washington, the Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Charities arm have launched an effort that challenges members of the local community to reach out to those in need. Called the “Walk With Francis Pledge,” the campaign invites people to serve others in their community and […]
National
By Sean Gallagher | Catholic News Service
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – The Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage will likely have broad effects across the legal system, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. “Marriage, as understood between one man and one woman, is embedded throughout the law,” he said, “so to […]
Local
By Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Cardinal William W. Baum, the archbishop of Washington from 1973 to 1980, died July 23 at the age of 88 after a long illness. He was a cardinal for 39 years – the longest such tenure in U.S. church history. Cardinal Baum witnessed history from the Second Vatican Council through the election of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
LAFAYETTE, La. – Bishop Michael Jarrell of Lafayette offered prayers and sympathy to the victims of a multiplex cinema shooting July 23 in Lafayette in which two were killed and nine wounded. “On behalf of the Catholic faithful in the Diocese of Lafayette, we offer our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims of […]
National
By Abbey Jaroma
WASHINGTON – Amid an outcry from members of the GOP demanding answers to questions raised by a video of a Planned Parenthood physician talking about preserving fetal organs and tissue for researchers for a fee, a second video emerged July 21 of a different physician from the organization talking about the same topic. Lawmakers and […]
Columns
By Carolyn Y. Woo
In June I had the unbelievable privilege and unforgettable experience of speaking at the Vatican press conference for the launch of Pope Francis’ much-anticipated encyclical on the environment. Named “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” the encyclical draws from St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Creatures,” which “invites us to see nature as a […]
National
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In an era where Catholics are pretty much an afterthought on television, the sight of any cleric on the small screen almost immediately evokes thoughts of “the next Bishop Sheen” – the 1950s prime-time inspirational program host Archbishop Fulton Sheen. But in pretty much all past cases, those clerics weren’t bishops themselves. But […]
