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October 23, 2013
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has authorized a leave of absence for a German bishop at the centre of controversy over expenditures for his residence and diocesan centre.
October 24, 2013
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Christians and Jews must work together to fight all forms of discrimination and persecution, Pope Francis told a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
LONDON (CNS) - The leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion told the parents of the future British king to "make sure he knows who Jesus is."
TORONTO - Often it is said that the devil is in the detail, but with the illuminated St. John’s Bible it is God’s Word in the detail.
There was a time in El Salvador when Sr. Jeannette Bolduc and Sr. Amabilis Deveau used to carefully scan a bus before they got on board. If there was a soldier on the bus, they would wait for the next one.
Jesuits take their vow of poverty seriously, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need money. It just means they spend it on things that will help them work harder, longer and better on the spiritual well-being of everybody else.
October 25, 2013
Toronto - Faith Connections is expanding its Theology on Tap series to meet the growing needs of the young and faithful in the Toronto area.
It’s no trick that students at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, Ont., aren’t looking for treats this Halloween. Instead, they want non-perishable food items so they can surpass a half-million pounds of food collected since the school’s first Halloween 4 Hunger campaign began in 2000.
Finding pornography on the Internet is as easy as finding hay in a haystack. Finding studies, articles and research on this topic? Not as common, but certainly available.
Heading home on the train one Tuesday night, I noticed a large flying insect trying to climb up the wall, but it kept falling down. It seemed injured and very weak, twitching incessantly. It would, however, not give up, climbing up and falling down dozens of times.
VATICAN CITY - Ten days after he took office as Vatican secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin was released from the hospital Oct. 25, following surgery for an unspecified illness.
NEW YORK - Fifth Avenue is the world’s main street, a gentle stroll taking you from the Empire State Building at 34th Street to the New York public library at 42nd Street, or from FAO Schwartz, the toy store for all ages, at 59th Street, to the magnificent Frick Gallery at 71st Street. Then there is the Queen of Fifth Avenue, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which Cardinal Timothy Dolan likes to call “America’s parish church.”
The roots of our Halloween traditions may lie in Europe, but in Europe Halloween is regarded as an American import. Nothing says American Halloween like a big toothy jack o’lantern, and the paper pumpkins that are decorating the tourist bars of Kraków are a testament to globalization.
The other day, I lost my so-called smartphone. It was kind of dumb of me. But the episode set off a range of emotions; from the pit-in-my-stomach initial feeling to panic and stress at figuring out what to do next, including a little prayer to St. Anthony, to contentment realizing life without that digital albatross around my neck actually feels pretty good.
October 26, 2013
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - No matter how some media may want to spin it, Pope Francis won't fit into the political categories of left or right, and he will challenge everyone with the truth of the Gospel, said the Vatican's media adviser.
October 27, 2013
TORONTO - It took drilling wells for more than four decades before Br. Anthony Canterucci realized that clean water wasn’t what the people of Tanzania needed most. So now he is building schools.
October 28, 2013
Before Vatican II, the laity served a passive role in the Church behind ordained religious figures such as priests, sisters and brothers. But post-Vatican II much has changed. As recounted in the book The Many Marks of the Church, in response to a dismissive, rhetorical question “The Laity? Who are they?” posed by a Vatican official, John Henry Newman replied, “The Church would look rather silly without them.”
Pope Francis has named Victoria, B.C., Bishop Richard Gagnon as the new archbishop of Winnipeg to replace Archbishop James Weisgerber.
October 29, 2013
OTTAWA - As Quebec’s euthanasia Bill-52 faces its first vote today, the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF) and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) put out urgent calls to oppose the bill.
October 30, 2013
VATICAN CITY - Trials and doubts are part of everyone's faith journey, "even mine," Pope Francis said, but Christians know they can get through the hard times with help from God, other Christians and those in heaven.