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Julie Asher

Catholic News Service is a leading agency for religious news. Its mission is to report fully, fairly and freely on the involvement of the church in the world today.

Biden repeats call for unity, says faith can show way forward in dark times

February 5, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

For many in the nation, this is a dark time because of job loss, hunger, evictions, sickness and death because of COVID-19, “so where do we turn? Faith” President Joe Biden said, addressing the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4.

CNS’ ‘staying power’ credited to quality coverage of church, its role in world

February 4, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News

A hundred years ago the U.S. Catholic bishops were insightful enough to realize there was a role for a news service to provide accurate information about the church, said Thomas Lorsung, retired director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service.

Bishops, other pro-life leaders decry Biden action ending ‘Mexico City policy’

January 28, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

President Joe Biden’s memo rescinding the so-called “Mexico City policy” Jan. 28, the eve of this year’s March for Life, “is a deeply disturbing move, especially when the president says he wants national unity,” tweeted Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Defense and Education Fund.

Bishops say order on LBGTQ equality has implications for religious liberty

January 25, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.

Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good

December 14, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

Use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable, say bishops

November 25, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not “immoral to be vaccinated with them,” the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.

Archbishop Lori says Blessed McGivney, as parish priest, embodied beatitudes

November 2, 2020
By Julie Asher
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Video, World News

Blessed Michael J. McGivney was a priest of the Eight Beatitudes because he lived them “so consistently and thoroughly” as a parish priest and as the founder of the Knights of Columbus, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, the Knights’ supreme chaplain.

Father McGivney, model parish priest with ‘zeal’ for Gospel and serving faithful, beatified

October 31, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Saints, World News

Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his apostolic letter of beatification of the founder of the Knights of Columbus.

COVID-19, abortion and Supreme Court, race top issues for Pence, Harris

October 8, 2020
By Julie Asher
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News

The COVID-19 pandemic, abortion and the Supreme Court, and race were among the top issues debated by Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Vice President Mike Pence Oct. 7 at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Global biotech company ends use of aborted fetal cell lines for vaccines

September 21, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, Respect Life, World News

Catholic pro-life leaders say they are seeing some progress in the development of vaccines with the use of ethical animal cell lines instead of cell lines derived from abortions.

Two groups criticize Catholic honor planned for U.S. attorney general

September 15, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and the Catholic Mobilizing Network said they strongly object to an award the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast organizers plan to present to U.S. Attorney General William Barr during the annual breakfast, which is to be livestreamed Sept. 23 from Washington.

Wisconsin bishop says ‘both sides’ urge response to priest’s ‘divisive’ video

September 11, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, World News

The bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, said Sept. 9 that he has privately begun “applying Gospel principles” to correct a pastor who in a video says Catholics who are Democrats must “repent” of their support for the party or “face the fires of hell.”

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