Young Afghan mother, Catholic Charities volunteer killed by oncoming truck
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A retired nurse who felt called to help Afghan refugees and the young Afghan mother she embraced as a mentor were killed after being hit by a truck while out taking a walk Feb. 15. Enedina “Dina” Fernandez, 75, had just finished giving an English lesson to 23-year-old Nabila Rasoul at […]
Scorecards tally House, Senate votes on voting rights, budget, life issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Teachers aren’t the only ones to hand out report cards. Any number of lobbies in Washington issue reports scoring lawmakers on how they voted on a host of issues near and dear to their respective organizations. One legislator may get a score close to zero by one organization, yet be judged as […]
More than a place to die: Sisters offer hospice care to patients in Kenya
THIGIO, Kenya — Michael Kamau Mathini is convinced that his father lived as long as he did because of the quality of care he received at Our Lady Hospice-Thigio, run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul. Joffrey Mathini Kamau died in March 2021 at age 106, his son said, having entered […]
Pope Francis meets Christian movement of blind and visually impaired people
Pope Francis met with members of Voir Ensemble, a Christian movement of blind and visually impaired people on Feb. 19, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 19, 2022 / 07:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis met Saturday with a Christian movement of blind and visually impaired people, who are on a pilgrimage in Rome. “Your […]
Celibacy not ‘divine law’ for priests, but promotes holiness, speakers say
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood. Jesus’ chastity, poverty and obedience were not “incidental or simply functional,” but expressed his total union with God […]
Turkey continues to shelter 3.7 million Syrians
New figures show that Turkey granted citizenship to 194,000 Syrians, including 84,000 children last year. Read all
50 years later, Aretha Franklin's 'Young, Gifted and Black' teaches love awakens the soul
By the time “Young, Gifted, and Black” was released in 1972, Aretha Franklin had released 21 albums, including recordings of live concerts. Church and holy belief is everywhere in her voice.
Climate change is shifting the goalposts for global sport
From artificial snow at the Beijing Winter Games to dams being too low to row in: the sports world is having to come to terms with unusual and unpredictable conditions.
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: We must believe in Jesus' vision
Scripture for Life: Which is harder to give up, our excess goods or our resentments? Do we care enough about the poor to forfeit some comfort? Are we willing to try to understand people with whom we strongly disagree?
Viganò, Vatican II and the Catholic Liturgy
In his open message to priests, dated January 2, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò begins with the admission that he had served the “Holy Apostolic Mass” as a youth; that it was the Mass of his ordination in March, 1968; and that it soon became a distant memory. He admits that he had been away […]