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By James Martone Catholic News Service
CAIRO – As tear-gas bearing police battled Egyptians armed with stones in front of Cairo’s U.S. Embassy, Rashad was two neighborhoods away, making sure the few evening costumers respected the line at the Mobinil cellphone company where he works. “Is it all right to defame the Prophet, blessings be upon him?” Rashad, a Muslim, asked […]
Local
By Sara Angle Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Today’s youths can’t be expected to solve the problem of childhood obesity all by themselves. When shocking studies came out in the early 2000s about childhood obesity rates, people began looking for someone to blame. Fingers were pointed at parents, schools, food companies and even the government. The reality of the epidemic is […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Threats to religious freedom around the world, the human costs of globalization, media transformed by the revolution in information technology – these are some of the challenges that the next pope is bound to face in leading the church. According to one highly informed observer, the next pope will also have an […]
Movies
Morally ambiguous drama about an airplane crash and the emotional impact it has on the survivors. Despite being an alcoholic and a cocaine addict, the pilot (Denzel Washington) of a doomed airliner becomes a hero after miraculously landing his craft with only a small loss of life. When the accident investigation reveals his impaired and […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – If a person’s prayer life is boring, that generally means that he or she is focused too much on the self and not enough on Jesus and the needs of others, Pope Francis said during a morning Mass homily. “True prayer leads us out of ourselves toward the Father in the name […]
Local
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Today, with so many families operating at warp-speed busyness because of work and after school activities, the idea of sitting down together for a family meal may seem like a quaint notion from a bygone era. Instead, families eat at odd times and frequently not together. Parents and children grab dinner on […]
National
DENNIS SADOWSKI Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Ishmeal Alfred Charles will always remember the day the helicopters saved his life. It was sometime in 1998, in the midst of Sierra Leone’s civil war, and Charles, then 15, was standing in line with a group of 10 teenagers, facing mutilation at the hands of a savage […]
National
By Maria Wiering
BALTIMORE – On the eve of the feast day of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori held up the two martyrs as a source of inspiration for American Catholics during a Mass June 21 launching the U.S. bishops’ much-anticipated Fortnight for Freedom. “Their courageous witness of faith continues to […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
Father Robert A. Lange Father Robert A. Lange was born in Richmond June 13, 1944, to Joseph and Thelma Lange. He attended St. Paul School and graduated from Benedictine High School, both in Richmond. After receiving a bachelor’s from Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, N.C., in 1967, he spent 15 years working in real estate. […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Q: As you are aware, the four Gospels in the Catholic Bible are based on the writings of saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But recently, as I was channel surfing, I came across a television program that spoke of the Gospels of Judas Iscariot, Peter the Apostle and Mary Magdalene. When I mentioned this […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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