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June 2019

June 8

Conscience fight moves to the political arena

June 8, 2019

Having lost twice in court, the battle for conscience rights for health care workers in Ontario is now a political battle.

Serving those who save and protect

June 8, 2019

EDMONTON -- It would certainly be much easier for Padre Chinedu Chukwu to minister to the Catholic faithful in a parish in the middle of suburbia. He had been there, and done that for more than a decade.

June 9

Ursulines mark century of service

June 9, 2019

SASKATOON -- In the spring of 1919, three “prophetic women of hope” came from Germany to Saskatchewan to teach in a pocket of devout German-speaking Russian emigrants who had settled beneath the vast expanse of sky and plain at the edge of what are known as the Great Sand Hills.

God's Word on Sunday: God is beyond all our descriptive words

June 9, 2019

Trinity Sunday, June 16 (Year C) Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 God cannot be contained within any word, concept, image or symbol.

Chef finds recipe for cure in Fatima trip

June 9, 2019

BATON ROUGE, La. -- When meeting Louisiana chef John Folse, one immediately learns he is a man who believes in his Catholic faith.

Dutch priest critical of 'euthanasia death' reports of teen

June 9, 2019

OXFORD, England -- A senior Dutch priest criticized media reports on the death of a teenager experiencing depression, accusing foreign media of "sensationalizing euthanasia" in his country.

June 10

Bishops take another try at addressing abuse, accountability among their own

June 10, 2019

WASHINGTON -- When the bishops gather in Baltimore June 11-14, their meeting will be anything but pro forma.

Pope Francis on Pentecost: 'Christian life unravels' without the Holy Spirit

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- In a world of conflict and division and a culture of insult, people need to live filled with the Holy Spirit, who is the only one capable of bringing harmony and unity to diversity, Pope Francis said.

Fulton Sheen remains will move to Peoria, NY archdiocese says

June 10, 2019

PEORIA, Ill., (CNA) -- The Archdiocese of New York will work to help transfer the remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a spokesman for the archdiocese told CNA Saturday. The decision is the conclusion of a long legal battle over the late archbishop's burial place.

Pope Francis announces plans to visit Iraq in 2020

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Announcing his desire to visit Iraq in 2020, Pope Francis called for a peaceful resolution to crises in the Middle East.

Gender ideology is opposed to faith, reason, Vatican office says

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- Catholic schools must help parents teach young people that biological sex and gender are naturally fixed at birth and part of God's plan for creation, said the Congregation for Catholic Education.

Pope Francis' message for World Mission Day: All Catholics must be missionaries

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- By virtue of their baptism, all Catholics are called to be missionaries, sharing the good news of salvation in Jesus by their actions and their words, Pope Francis said.

Nuncios from around the world to meet with pope

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has called Vatican nuncios to countries around the world and permanent observers at the U.N. and other agencies to a meeting in Rome June 12-15.

Pope Francis: Airport chaplains have special ministry

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- From pilots and passengers to refugees and fast-food workers, the people airport chaplains meet each day all deserve a kind word and an invitation to a relationship with God, Pope Francis said.

Ukrainian Catholics discuss future of their church in North America

June 10, 2019

WASHINGTON -- Ukrainian Catholics in North America continue to struggle to develop ways to maintain their Ukrainian religious and ethnic identity amid a larger majority culture that beckons with the siren song of assimilation.

Catholic education key to fighting indifference, Pope Francis says

June 10, 2019

VATICAN CITY -- Individualism and consumerism undermine the most basic rules of coexistence and challenge the principles of cooperation and mutual understanding promoted by Catholic education, Pope Francis said.

New Syriac Catholic bishop hopes Christianity will thrive again in Iraq

June 10, 2019

BEIRUT -- Syriac Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Nizar Semaan begins his new mission in Iraq with hope "that Christianity will flourish again" in his homeland.

June 11

Federal judge OKs $60 million settlement in Haitian orphanage abuse case

June 11, 2019

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A $60 million settlement to be paid by Fairfield University and several Catholic organizations and individuals will go to as many as 170 Haitian children at a Catholic orphanage who were abused by convicted pedophile Douglas Perlitz.

US nuncio discusses migration, religious freedom, faith in a changing society

June 11, 2019

PITTSBURGH -- Pope Francis follows closely the news related to immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Archbishop Christophe Pierre said in May 30 interview in Pittsburgh.

Catholic 'gender theory' document: clarity for a wounded, oversexed culture?

June 11, 2019

WASHINGTON D.C., (CNA) -- Catholic commentators have welcomed a Vatican document warning that gender theory is a cultural and ideological revolution that undermines both human dignity and the right understandings of sexual difference and complementarity, though the document was not without its critics.