WASHINGTON (CNS) — Speakers at commencement exercises at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities this year ranged from musician and composer Harry Connick Jr. and actor of […]
Musician, actor, cardinals, lawyer address U.S. Catholic college graduates
Priest in Vietnam released before Obama’s visit
HUE, Vietnam (CNS) — Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly, a human rights campaigner jailed by Vietnamese authorities, was released from prison three days ahead of the […]
‘The meeting is the message,’ pope tells head of al-Azhar
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After five years of tension and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim […]
Court remands two HHS challenges to lower courts ‘in light of Zubik’
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court in orders issued May 23 remanded two Catholic entities’ legal challenges to the federal contraceptive mandate back to the […]
Pope Benedict denies latest rumors about Fatima ‘secret’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sixteen years after the Vatican released the text of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, rumors cyclically arise claiming that the Vatican […]
Tournament sets goals of friendship, nets goals for players
ROME (CNS) — When Emmanuele Trincas described Roman Cocco as a “bomber” on the soccer field, they both laughed, but it also gave Cocco the confidence […]
House OKs bill allowing more ways to protect religious freedom worldwide
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. House May 16 unanimously passed the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, giving the Obama administration and the U.S. State Department […]
South Carolina Legislature passes bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CNS) — The South Carolina Legislature passed a bill that makes abortion illegal at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child […]