world news FeatureNewsVaticanWorld News U.S. data group: China hacked computers of Vatican, other church entities Catholic News ServiceJuly 29, 20203 min read China has been accused of hacking Vatican computers as well as those in the Diocese of Hong Kong and other Catholic organizations in May. 2020 ElectionCoronavirusNewsWorld News Notre Dame won’t host Sept. 29 presidential debate; venue moves to Ohio Catholic News ServiceJuly 29, 20203 min read The University of Notre Dame has withdrawn as the host site for the first presidential debate, with its president saying the health precautions required because of COVID-19 “would have greatly diminished the educational value” of having the debate on campus. FeatureKnights of ColumbusWorld News Beatification of Father McGivney to take place Oct. 31 in Hartford, Conn. Catholic News ServiceJuly 28, 20204 min read Father Michael McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, will be beatified during a special Mass Oct. 31 at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford. FeatureNewsObituariesWorld News Regis Philbin dies; Catholic TV host logged 17,000-plus hours on tube Mark PattisonJuly 27, 20204 min read Regis Philbin, the Catholic talk- and game-show host whose career in television spanned six decades, died July 24 at age 88 of cardiovascular disease at a hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he lived. FeatureNewsObituariesRacial JusticeWorld News Head of Network remembers Lewis as ‘determined, forceful, thoughtful’ Betty ArayaJuly 27, 20205 min read WASHINGTON (CNS) — As Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, began reflecting on her fondest memories of the late Congressman John Lewis, she could recall one instance in which his body language showed something different than the soft-spoken, yet passionate man she knew. “The last time we really worked […] FeatureNewsWorld News French police arrest cathedral volunteer who confesses to Nantes fire Catholic News ServiceJuly 27, 20203 min read A Rwandan is facing up to 10 years in prison after he confessed to deliberately setting fire to the city’s Gothic cathedral. FeatureNewsSportsWorld News MLB’s first woman coach a ‘go-getter’ at Jesuit university Mark PattisonJuly 25, 20204 min read Another barrier in the sports world was broken July 20 when Alyssa Nakken coached first base in the late innings of an exhibition game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, thus becoming the first woman to appear in uniform on the field during a major league baseball game. The Giants won the game, 6-2. CoronavirusFeatureNewsWorld News Fauci calls COVID-19 a ‘pandemic of historic proportion,’ like 1918’s flu Catholic News ServiceJuly 25, 20207 min read There is no denying the fact “this is a pandemic of historic proportion,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University in a recent online webinar focused on young people’s risks and responsibilities in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. CoronavirusFeatureNewsSeniorsWorld News ‘Our most tragic time’: Felician sisters bear loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19 Dan StockmanJuly 23, 20209 min read And in one awful month — from Good Friday, April 10, to May 10 — 12 sisters died of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Eighteen other Felician sisters at the convent in Livonia had the illness as well. McCarrick ReportNewsWorld News New accusation surfaces against former U.S. prelate McCarrick Rhina GuidosJuly 23, 20205 min read A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate, leveling a new accusation that he allegedly abused its new client as a boy at a beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in the early 1980s. Previous 1 … 562 563 564 … 598 Next