VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Announcing the themes for the next three World Youth Day celebrations, Pope Francis called on young men and women to meditate on the path of Christian life that God has called them to walk. Meeting with 280 young people from 109 countries who took part in a postsynod Youth For...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong gingerly stepped onto the surface of the moon July 20, 1969, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno had no idea that some day he would become the director of the Vatican Observatory. Sixteen at the time, he had followed the space program since Ala...
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Q. In the Nicene Creed, we recite that Christ "will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead." But many of us assume that we are judged individually (and hopefully off to heaven) at the moment of our death. So which is it -- are we judged by God as soon as we die or is it later, at Chri...
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WASHINGTON— The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, encourages Catholics to pray and act in support of religious liberty at home and abroad during Religious Freedom Week 2019, which beg...
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The Spring General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resulted in significant steps to hold bishops accountable for instances of sexual abuse of children or vulnerable persons, sexual misconduct or the intentional mishandling of such cases. The bishops overwhelmingly approved three...
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BALTIMORE (CNS) – The U.S. bishops voted June 13 to revise what the U.S. church teaches its adult members about the death penalty in the U.S. Catechism for Adults.               The full body of bishops approved the revised pass...
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BALTIMORE (CNS) – During the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ spring general assembly in Baltimore, the bishops considered something described as the second-most important issue currently facing U.S. church leaders (after the sexual-abuse crisis): How to get religiously unaffiliated...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Professors, youth ministers and lay theologians across the country give different reasons for why young people are leaving the church, but they all agree that listening and mentoring are key to developing and maintaining faith.        ...
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Q. I read your recent answer concerning divorced Catholics and their standing in the church. You and others fail to remind Catholics that the Catechism (No. 2384-85) calls divorce a grave injustice to the abandoned spouse and the children and also introduces disorder into society. How can you (and,...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholic young adults felt the hierarchy started listening to them in preparation for the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, and they will do whatever they can to make sure their voices continue to be heard, said a youth minister from New Zealand.     &...
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