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By Katie Scott
“That’s God up there, isn’t it, right?” Jordan Garcia pointed above a table covered with a hearty dinner spread of salad, pasta, bread and chicken casserole. The 7-year-old with large dark eyes stood gazing at the crucifix for about 30 seconds before turning his attention back to the meal he was about to eat. Jordan […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
MORELIA, Mexico – The devil loves Christians – especially priests and nuns – who are resigned to the violence and corruption around them, Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass Feb. 16 at a stadium in Morelia, Pope Francis repeated his frequent call to priests, religious and seminarians to get out of their churches and convents and […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
ECATEPEC, Mexico – Pope Francis began his travels to Mexico’s “peripheries” by visiting an overcrowded, sprawling settlement known internationally as a hunting ground for girls to force into prostitution and for boys to enlist in the drug trade. Ecatepec, on the northern edge of Mexico City, also has tidy gated communities and a new shopping […]
National
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died of apparent natural causes Feb. 13, was the longest-serving member of the current Supreme Court. He was 79. Scalia was nominated to the high court in June 1986 by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate that September. With his death, there are now five […]
Arts
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK – For more than 40 years, the biblical epic was a recognized – and reliably popular – Hollywood genre. Conveniently, if not with precision, its heyday might be seen as bookended by MGM’s two classic adaptations of Civil War Gen. Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.” The first of […]
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Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
HAVANA — At long last, Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow embraced, kissing each other three times. “Finally,” the pope told the patriarch Feb. 12 as they met in a lounge at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. “We are brothers,” he told the patriarch. Amid the clicking of cameras and multiple flashes, […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY – Confessors have two choices: to be like Jesus who readily forgave sins or like the devil who always condemns, Pope Francis said. “You can either do the work of Jesus, who forgives, by giving your lives in prayer (and) through many hours seated there or you do the work of the devil […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO HAVANA – Making his 12th trip abroad, Pope Francis was accustomed to collecting interview requests, notes and gifts from the journalists who travel on the plane with him. But his flight to Cuba Feb. 12 had a unique moment. Noel Diaz, who lives in Los Angeles and was covering the […]
Devil on the prowl