How Belgium’s Catholic king led nation through WWI and its darkest days November 11, 2022By Andrew Fowler Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Belgium’s Catholic monarch, King Albert I, stayed with his people during World War I, sharing in their suffering and keeping spirits alive through the grueling years of occupation and military resistance until Germany and the Allied powers signed an armistice Nov. 11, 1918.
Catholic leaders vow to continue fight after state abortion measures pass November 9, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News Although Catholic leaders and state Catholic conferences had pushed for the defeat of ballot measures protecting legal abortion and urged voters to pass measures restricting abortions, state voters ultimately went the other way Nov. 8.
Peace requires ‘gentle power of dialogue,’ pope says at audience November 9, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News For there to be peace, people need to expand their horizons, engage in dialogue and work with each other in a way that sets aside selfishness and ambition, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal tells leaders at COP27 they have duty to act on climate change November 9, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Leaders gathered in Egypt for the U.N. climate summit have “a moral obligation” to act seriously and together to safeguard the planet and to offer concrete aid to people suffering the “more frequent and more serious humanitarian impacts caused by climate change,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
Russian ambassador confirms pope helped facilitate prisoner exchanges November 9, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Russia’s ambassador to the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis helped facilitate recent prisoner exchanges with Ukraine and said the Vatican is ready to act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia.
Answer to evil November 9, 2022By Father Joseph Breighner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, News, Wit & Wisdom, World News As the old saying goes: “There is no sinner without a future, and no saint without a past.”
Pope avoids confrontation with Italy on migration but says lives must be saved November 8, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis avoided a direct confrontation with Italy’s new government over immigration policies, but he still insisted “lives must be saved.”
In Bahrain, pope sees joy of Catholic minority, deepens ties with Muslims November 8, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Traveling as a “sower of peace” to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis further strengthened ties with the Muslim world and witnessed the joy and vitality of its minority and predominately expatriate Christian population.
U.S. bishops launch new approach to teaching the faith November 8, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Youth Ministry A new outreach to teaching the faith, called the Institute on the Catechism, will be a springboard for faith formation developed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on the Catechism.
Despair over declining numbers shows lack of faith, pope tells religious November 7, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Numbers are a real challenge, but “those who get caught up in pessimism put faith aside,” the pope told students and staff of the Claretian Institute of the Theology of Consecrated Life in Rome and its affiliated programs in the Philippines, India, Colombia and Nigeria.
Ukrainian archbishop tells pope Russia wants to destroy, not negotiate November 7, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis has continued to call on Russian and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate an end to the war, but the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told him Russia wants only the destruction of Ukraine.
At border Mass above the Rio Grande, migrants who died are remembered November 7, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News – From an altar set on a platform just above the waters that straddle the U.S. and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrated a Mass Nov. 5 to remember migrants who’ve died trying to cross the waters below or along the border in 2022.
