Catholic News Service

Vol. 46, No. 46
April 20, 2017

-- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston expresses solidarity with the Coptic Church in Egypt after two of its churches were bombed.

-- Cardinal DiNardo and Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, urge renewed efforts to end Syria's civil war.

-- The U.S. Conference of Major Superiors of Men criticizes the bombing of a Syrian air base by the United States after what it called a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government.

-- Through the Eucharist, all of "our violent tendencies: our desire for revenge, our resentments, our emotional push to get even with our enemies" are offered up as a single bloodless sacrifice offering salvation and unity to a divided church and society, says Yakima, Washington, Bishop Joseph J. Tyson.

-- Christians are meant to be a healing balm "poured out on a society that has been wounded by shrill intolerance, carefully nurtured hatred, cynical indifference and widespread fear," says Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey.

-- The church wants to hear your voice, Pope Francis invites the world's youth.

-- What does it mean to judge justly? Fordham University scholar Father Patrick J. Ryan looks at Christian, Jewish and Muslim views.

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