After Maronite patriarch pressured, U.S. advocates express support
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Advocates, political leaders and a Maronite Catholic bishop gathered on Zoom for a virtual seminar to express support for Lebanon's Maronite patriarch, who came under pressure after calling for the Lebanese army [...]
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Indiana University’s vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Supreme Court announced Aug. 12 that it will not hear an appeal from a group of students at Indiana University who are opposed to the university's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The students' [...]
Catholic agency helps resettle Afghan translators who aided U.S. forces
ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- When U.S. service members were in a foreign land, unsure of the way and unable to speak the language, brave locals came to their assistance. Now, the Afghans who served as [...]
Some Catholic hospitals now require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, president of the Catholic Health Association, is on a mission. She hopes to clarify some of the current confusion leading to both vaccine hesitancy and recent protests over [...]
Environmental leaders: U.N. climate change report can spur prayerful action
Amadou Diallo, a program manager for Catholic Relief Services in Senegal, knows from talking with the farmers and cattle herders in his country that the cyclical droughts the country experienced occurred about once every 10 [...]
Church helps northbound migrants trying to cross dangerous Darién Gap
NECOCLÍ, Colombia (CNS) -- At a small church, Docasse Montry picked up a free food package that included rice, cooking oil and tuna. It was basic, but the package was helpful for Montry, who has [...]
Look to Christ, not the law, to receive new life, pope says at audience
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- What made Christian life radically new was the call for those who have faith in Jesus Christ to live in the Holy Spirit, who liberates from the law God handed down [...]
Marathon bronze medalist loves ‘running more than just about anything’
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNS) -- Molly Seidel, the most decorated runner in the University of Notre Dame's history, became just the third American woman to medal in the Olympic Marathon when she took bronze in [...]
Ugandan Catholic leaders work to reduce violence against women, girls
TORORO, Uganda (CNS) -- Lying in her hospital bed, Grace Namakula, 39, writhed in pain as she explained how her husband beat and seriously injured her following a domestic dispute. "He rained blows, kicks and [...]
Johnny Young, diplomat who later led bishop’s refugee service, dies at 81
KENSINGTON, Md. (CNS) -- Johnny Young, who overcame crushing poverty in his youth to serve as a U.S. ambassador in four countries under three presidents and later as director of the U.S. bishops' Migration and [...]
UPDATE: Rwandan immigrant turns himself in for killing French Montfort provincial
SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-SÈVRE, France (CNS) -- A Rwandan immigrant awaiting trial for the arson of the cathedral in Nantes turned himself in to police for killing the French provincial of the Montfort Missionaries. Emmanuel Abayisenga, 40, a [...]
Jesus is life-giving bread, not just ‘side dish,’ pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesus wants to nourish the souls of those who are spiritually famished from the loneliness and anguish that come from life's difficulties, Pope Francis said. "What does he not want? To [...]