'Let freedom ring!' Respect for rights helps society, Pope says
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServicePHILADELPHIA - Not far from where the Liberty Bell is on display, Pope Francis urged the people of the United States to continue to "proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof," as the bell's inscription says.
Casting the NET onto new public squares
By Jean Ko Din, The Catholic RegisterWhen the Apostles first set out to evangelize to the world, they stood in public squares to preach about the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ resurrection. But today, Brian Holdsworth said the new public squares are on the Internet and this is where the Church must be.
Ethiopians yearn for religious experience
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Ethiopia is not like the rest of Africa. Just ask an Ethiopian.
Africa takes its place in universal Church
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - The Catholic Church is more African than most Canadians realize. We pay no attention to the early African popes — Gelasius I (492 to 496), Miltiades (311 to 314) and Victor I (189 to 199). We gloss over the African origins of some of the most significant writers and thinkers of early Christianity, including the evangelist Mark, author of the oldest Gospel in the canon, and theologians Tertullian, Origen and St. Augustine of Hippo.
Pope challenges religious to create ministries that inspire young people
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News ServicePHILADELPHIA - Pope Francis encouraged Pennsylvania's Catholic clergy and women and men religious to challenge young people to develop "high ideals, generosity of spirit and love for Christ and the church."
New York Pope
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
Pope brings Gospel of 'encounter' to Madison Square Garden
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceNEW YORK - Seeing New York for the first time in his 78 years of life, Pope Francis said he knew Madison Square Garden was an important gathering place for sporting events and concerts. For him, it was transformed into a chapel in the heart of the Big Apple.
Pope at 9/11 Memorial: Violence is never impersonal, always brings tears
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News ServiceNEW YORK - Honoring both the pain and the strength of the families of those who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and drawing on the pools of water that are part of the site's memorial, Pope Francis spoke about tears and quenching the world's longing for peace."The water we see flowing toward that empty pit remind us of all those lives" lost in 2001, he said. "The flowing water is also a symbol of our tears. Tears at so much devastation and ruin, past and present."
Pope can open United States to a broad range of justice work
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - The Pope’s tour of the United States has the power to re-engage Catholics in a broad range of work for justice and to rediscover a broader, more Catholic perspective, Kate Bini said shortly after Pope Francis address to the United Nations.
Pope’s inspiration hits New York streets
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - In two days Pope Francis has spoken to some of the most powerful people on Earth — U.S. senators and Congress representatives and the world diplomatic community at the United Nations.
Power must not be wielded by the few, Pope tells UN
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterNEW YORK - Pope Francis has come to the powerful to demand limits on power. He came to open a session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Sept. 25, to speak to the world’s diplomatic elite and the powerful forces they represent on behalf of the “victims of power badly exercised.”