Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway August 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans August 18, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees called on the U.S. government to “act with utmost urgency” to resettle thousands of Afghan citizens entering the country under special immigrant visas.
Archbishop says Berlin Wall was a Good Friday in German history August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Catholics and Protestants gathered Aug. 13 to remember the day in 1961 when their city was divided, becoming a symbol of the Cold War.
Shrine honoring Blessed Stanley Rother hits milestone as dome set in place August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Construction of a shrine honoring an American priest who was killed while serving in Guatemala reached a milestone with the installation of a massive dome.
Cardinal holds officers, their families ‘in prayer,’ decries gun violence August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for slain police officer Ella French and her family and friends “as they cope with the terrible reality that their loved one was taken from them in another act of senseless violence.”
First Nations, Catholics work at North Vancouver residential school site August 12, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Three First Nations are working with the Archdiocese of Vancouver to look for remains of at least 12 students who attended the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School.
U.S. Cardinal Burke says he has tested positive for COVID-19 August 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News In an Aug. 10 tweet, he wrote: “Praised be Jesus Christ! I wish to inform you that I have recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Thanks be to God, I am resting comfortably and receiving excellent medical care.”
Ruling blocking HHS ‘transgender mandate’ called ‘victory for conscience’ August 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A U.S. District Court judge’s Aug. 9 ruling to block the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures despite their own moral or medical objections is “a victory for common sense, conscience and sound medicine.”
Centennial of a murder: The priest, the Klan and a wedding remembered August 10, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Irish Father James E. Coyle faced prejudice and threats and ministered during the height of the Spanish flu pandemic. One hundred years ago, he was shot and killed by a Protestant minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rwandan immigrant turns himself in for killing French Montfort provincial August 10, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A Rwandan immigrant awaiting trial for the arson of the cathedral in Nantes turned himself into police for killing the French provincial of the Montfort Missionaries.
Vatican: ‘Killer robots’ pose threat to innocent civilians August 7, 2021By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The use of “killer robots” and other lethal autonomous weapons systems violate international treaties because innocent civilians could be erroneously targeted, the Vatican said during a U.N. meeting in Geneva.
