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World News

Pope adds year of missionary service to Vatican diplomats’ training

February 17, 2020
By Cindy Wooden
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

Pope Francis, adopting a suggestion made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, has decided that every priest preparing for service in the Vatican diplomatic corps must spend a year in ministry as a missionary.

Remains of aborted babies now in final resting place in Indiana cemetery

February 14, 2020
By Ann Carey
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

A cold, gray, wintry day in South Bend seemed like an appropriate setting for the burial of 2,411 aborted babies, whose remains were interred in Southlawn Cemetery in the city Feb. 12.

‘Shocking’ ignorance on Real Presence prompts eucharistic congress

February 13, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, World News

Fewer than one-third of Catholics believe the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Pew Research Center found in a recent poll.

Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’

February 13, 2020
By Kurt Jensen
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

“Les Miserables” (Amazon) has no connection to Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the same name other than its setting — the rundown Paris suburb of Montfermeil, where the poor still struggle and continue to distrust authority figures.

Father George Coyne, Vatican astronomer from Baltimore, dies at 87

February 13, 2020
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, World News

Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, a Baltimore native who led the Vatican Observatory as its director for 28 years, got his start in the field of astronomy as a young student in formation for the priesthood by secretly studying under his blanket, flashlight in hand.

Brazil remembers Sister Dorothy Stang; landless defenders still threatened

February 12, 2020
By Lise Alves
Filed Under: News, World News

Feb. 12 was the 15th anniversary of Sister Dorothy Stang’s assassination in the Amazon region of Brazil. The U.S.-born nun is remembered as a crusader for the poor and the landless and for her love of the land and the Amazon forest.

Pope says there is no quick fix for priest shortage in Amazon region

February 12, 2020
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Video, World News

Pope Francis acknowledged the serious shortage of priests in remote areas of the Amazon, but he insisted not all avenues have been exhausted to address the issue.

Pope shares his ‘dreams’ for Amazon region, its Catholic community

February 12, 2020
By Cindy Wooden
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Pope Francis said he dreams of an Amazon region where the rights of the poor and indigenous are respected, local cultures are preserved, nature is protected, and the Catholic Church is present and active with “Amazonian features.”

Knights of Columbus celebrate 100 years in Rome

February 11, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Filed Under: Knights of Columbus, News, World News

Less than 40 years after its humble beginnings in New Haven, Connecticut, the Knights of Columbus was invited by Pope Benedict XV to establish a permanent presence in Rome.

U.S. bishops ask pope about Amazon synod, discuss range of issues

February 11, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Video, World News

Talking about debates, differences and discernment, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that people focused on the possibility of ordaining some married men and women deacons for service in the Amazon will be disappointed in his apostolic exhortation.

Generous help of Knights counters culture of indifference, pope says

February 10, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News

Pope Francis praised the Knights of Columbus for their charitable efforts and thanked them especially for helping Christians in the Middle East.

Cardinal Dolan to meet with Cuban president, church leaders during visit

February 7, 2020
By Rhina Guidos
Filed Under: News, World News

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is set to meet with the president of the Republic of Cuba during a Feb. 7-12 trip to the island nation, which includes a visit with the cardinal of Havana and other Cuban prelates.

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