WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) — Low-cost video messaging carried across increasingly video-friendly social media platforms will define this year’s World Youth Day experience, said several […]
Pilgrims to take sharpened social media strategies to World Youth Day
Pray for healing of community divisions, archbishop says
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis focused on the need for unity and healing in the Twin Cities […]
Religious congregation donates money to help develop anti-trafficking app
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Through a $100,000 matching grant the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph has helped the Exchange Initiative and two developers create TraffickCam, […]
Experts: Cardinal Sarah’s Mass comments encourage what canon law permits
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Recent comments by a high-ranking Vatican official have sparked questions about the direction priests should face while celebrating Mass, but the Vatican spokesman […]
U.S. and Spanish journalists will lead Vatican press office
Pope Francis named two experienced journalists — including its first female vice director — to lead the Vatican press office.
Philadelphia archbishop issues guidelines to implement ‘Amoris Laetitia’
Priests, deacons, seminarians and laypeople who work in marriage preparation and pastoral care “regarding matters of human sexuality” in the Philadelphia Archdiocese received six-page guidelines July 1 for implementing Pope Francis’ exhortation on marriage and family.
House subcommittee forum urges action on Conscience Protection Act
Medical experts, politicians and religious leaders spoke at a Capitol Hill forum July 8, urging Congress to pass H.R. 4828, the Conscience Protection Act.
Bishops urge passage of conscience protection bill regarding abortion
The chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees are urging Congress to pass the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 as an “immediate federal remedy” for government “coercion on abortion.”