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By Judith Sudilovskyâ¦catholic News Service
JERUSALEM – One in five seminaries and theological institutions in North America surveyed offer courses on faith and the environment and the number appears to be growing, a study by a Jerusalem-based interfaith environmental group found. In a report released June 22 to coincide with Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care […]
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By Laura Ieraci | catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – More than 1.5 million people are expected for the Mass with Pope Francis in Philadelphia this September, said organizers of the next World Meeting of Families. A high-level delegation from Philadelphia, led by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, was in Rome as of June 22 to meet with Vatican officials, review some of […]
Pope Francis
By Laura Ieraci | catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Clerics who work in the Vatican’s diplomatic corps are not called to be “senior officials of a state” or “a self-preserving superior caste, welcome in worldly living rooms,” Pope Francis said. Rather, they must be “authentic pastors,” with the “courage to plow” with their own hands the fields of mission to which […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
KOLKATA, India – Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Blessed Teresa of Kolkata as superior general of the Missionaries of Charity and led the order for 12 years until retiring in 2009, died early June 23 in Kolkota at age 81. Church and political leaders paid tribute to Sister Nirmala for her devotion to serving poor, […]
Global
By Mariana Karapinka | Catholic News Service
KHARKIV, Ukraine – In post-Soviet Ukraine, churches are rebuilding. Not just structures, but parish communities as well. A delegation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops got to see for themselves the progress that Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Greek Catholic communities were making during a fact-finding trip June 20-24. At almost every stop, the five-member […]
National
By Peter Finney Jr. | catholic News Service
NEW ORLEANS – May 22 is a day Andres “Chico” Gonzalez Jr., will never forget. That day, nine years ago, he was a young New Orleans police officer on duty with his partner, and they made what people who don’t wear a badge call a “routine” traffic stop. “We don’t use the word ‘routine,'” Gonzalez […]
Global
By Simon Caldwell | Catholic News Service
MANCHESTER, England – Bishops across the European Union are calling on member states to be generous toward tens of thousands of migrants flooding across the Mediterranean. French, German and Italian bishops have issued formal statements in response to a crisis that has seen more than 100,000 migrants, many of them refugees from wars in Syria […]
National
By Shan Moore | Catholic News Service
CADYVILLE, N.Y. – Fewer people were filling the pews at St. James Church in the Plattsburgh hamlet of Cadyville after two convicted killers escaped June 6 from the Clinton Correctional Facility. “We have a lot of parishioners that work in the prison,” Msgr. Lawrence Deno explained. “They had to work overtime.” And others, as the […]
Pope Francis
By Michelle Martin | Catholic News Service
CHICAGO – Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment is “a watershed moment for the church, for humanity and for the planet” that the pope “calls our common home,” Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich said. He met with the media June 18 at the Archbishop Quigley Center to share the salient points of the document, “Laudato […]
Columnists
By George Weigel
I’m fortunate to hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching these days leans far more toward moral exhortation than biblical exposition. This strikes me as a missed opportunity. For if one of the tasks of preaching today is to help the people of the church “see” the world and […]
