"Swedes are known to be people of consensus, pragmatic, so people try to cooperate even if they have different views and backgrounds," said Bishop Anders Arborelius of Stockholm, the country's only Catholic bishop and the first native Swede to hold the post since the Protestant R...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Supreme Court cases, with their multiple friend-of-the-court briefs, leave extensive paper trails behind them and although these briefs might get lost in the shuffle, occasionally some stand out.    In Zubik v. Burwell, the challenge to the Affordable Care Act's c...
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INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) – Last December, Cardinal-designate Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis made national news by defending the decision of his archdiocese to resettle a Syrian refugee family through the archdiocese's Catholic Charities agency – a decision that went against Indiana Gov. Mike...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Children are the most vulnerable and hardest hit among the world's migrants and require special protection, Pope Francis said.    "Children are the first among those to pay the heavy toll of emigration, almost always caused by violence, poverty, environmental co...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- All it takes is just one person carrying out one simple, loving act of mercy every day to start a revolution and stamp out the "virus of indifference," Pope Francis said.    Sharing God's mercy is not about expending a huge amount of effort or performing "superh...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Most people who keep an eye on life issues know the shorthand about the Hyde Amendment -- that it bars the federal government from funding abortions through Medicaid.    But the amendment does more than that -- although not everything pro-lifers may wish it could...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will conclude the Year of Mercy by creating 17 new cardinals, including three from the United States: Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago; Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the new Vatican office for laity, family and life; and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of In...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- If Christians are called to live their faith concretely, then they cannot leave out concrete signs of the unity to which Jesus calls them.    And just because the formal Anglican-Roman Catholic theological dialogue has been forced to grapple with new church-divi...
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INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- In serving in a state often called "the last frontier," the newly named archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, said he hopes to follow in the footsteps of some of the nation's pioneer bishops and priests, including those who served his home Archdiocese of Indianapolis.   &...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Those involved in the administration of law should seek justice and mercy in their work, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Oct. 2.    "Those two virtues must intersect in our lives and actions," said the archbishop, who was the homilist...
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