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By Daniel O’shea | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis isn’t going to be visiting the United States until September, but that hasn’t kept the pope from going all around the nation, if only as a simple piece of paper for the time being. Chicago-based Catholic Extension is helping to build excitement and support for Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to the […]
National
By Patricia Zapor | catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Writing that “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,” a 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court June 25 upheld tax subsidies for participants in health care exchanges run by the federal government in states that refused to create them. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice […]
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 […]
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 […]
Local
By Julia Willis
In a day and age where technology plays a vital role in everyday life, youths from across the Arlington Diocese traded their cellphones for hammers to serve the needy in Shenandoah County during WorkCamp June 20-26. Sponsored by the diocesan Office of Youth Ministry, the annual event typically draws hundreds of Northern Virginia youths and […]
Global
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
