Education is key to empowering women, says Ghanaian nun-doctor
ACCRA, Ghana (CNS) -- Equal access to education is the only means by which women can get into and sustain leadership positions in society, said a Ghanaian nun and medical doctor. Speaking to Catholic News [...]
Can God be found in science fiction? Actor suggests, well, maybe
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Is it possible the God of the universe is also the God of space aliens? In the scientific realm, the new Mars rover, Perseverance, is looking for signs of life that might [...]
This Lent, risk prayer
In college, I made Bluto Blutarsky from "Animal House" look like a choir boy. One night I got rip-roaring drunk, fell backward down a flight of stairs, split my head open. Spent the night in the [...]
PRAYER: A Lenten meditation
Jesus, as I make the 40-day pilgrimage through Lent, I ask that my journey may always be at your side. My one Lenten goal, indeed the one goal of my life, is to enter into [...]
Latin American church leaders: Get vaccines, prioritize the vulnerable
LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- Tony Palomino remains busy, picking up donations and putting together food baskets for delivery in his district in Lima, Peru's capital. Palomino runs a center for vulnerable senior citizens in the [...]
COMMENTARY: Why every Catholic should make a pilgrimage to Elmina Castle in Ghana
Black History Month is the nation's long-standing invitation to its residents to discover the many unsung contributions of Africans and African-descended people to human civilization and progress. Launched in 1926 as Negro History Week, this [...]
Widespread vaccination, supported by pope, faces myriad obstacles
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The hurdles on the path toward a fair, global distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine are economic, technical, political and moral. The difficulty of vaccine rollouts even in the world's richest countries [...]
Growing our hearts this Lent
I don't know about you, but I often mentally brace myself for Lent. The season feels so long, so winter-ridden, and in this time of lingering pandemic, especially isolating. Yet, the Online Etymology Dictionary reminds [...]
Pope Francis’ guide to Lent for ministers: The call to pastoral conversion
In his 2013 apostolic exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" ("The Joy of the Gospel"), Pope Francis spoke of his dream for a "missionary option" (No. 27). To Pope Francis, this "option" is a new order of priorities [...]