VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis condemns a "cult of money" and the "dictatorship" of a faceless economy, he isn't trying to damper entrepreneurial spirit or shutter business. What entrepreneurs and leaders need, he has emphasized, is having a proper relationship with wealth -- that their mo...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- While Congress has stalled on adopting an increase in the federal minimum wage, steps are being taken across the country to boost the income of low-wage workers. From Massachusetts and Vermont to Seattle and San Francisco, state legislators and city councils have either acted on...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Addressing Mary as "mother of refugees," Pope Francis offered prayers for the millions of people in the world forced to flee their homelands, and he asked Catholics to reach out to them with assistance and a real welcome. "Remember, Jesus was a refugee; he and Mary and Joseph...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis visits South Korea, Aug. 14-18, he will take part in Asian Youth Day with delegates from some 30 countries, preside over the beatification of 124 Korean martyrs and meet with President Park Geun-hye. South Korea is one of Asia's major economies, with a small...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The spate of shooting incidents in America continued unabated into June: Oregon, Las Vegas, California. Cable news channels showed images of grieving families, disconsolate young people, grim-faced police chiefs and arrest photos of the suspects, be they alive or dead at their o...
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Q. Recently, some new priests were ordained for the Legionaries of Christ. I had thought that this order was being dissolved due to the scandals created by its founder, Father Marcial Maciel, who committed everything from fraud to pedophilia. Why is the order continuing when its founder was a socio...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis denounced those responsible for human trafficking, slave labor and arms manufacturing, saying people producing weapons of war are "merchants of death." "One day everything comes to an end and they will be held accountable to God," the pope said at his weekly gener...
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Q. I am divorced and, even though both my ex-husband and I are Catholic, we were married not in the Catholic Church but by a justice of the peace. Recently, my ex-husband remarried, and the ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest. I am wondering whether my ex-husband applied to the Catholic Chu...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Popes pray for peace; it is part of their ministry. And when war is raging or peace negotiations seem hopelessly bogged down, recent popes have invited leaders of other Christian traditions and other faiths to join them in prayer. Pope Francis has put a twist on the interrelig...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Washington-based organization and its worldwide partners working to carry on the biblical principle of jubilee have gained the attention of the Vatican. Representatives of Jubilee USA Network and its partners discussed the need for debt relief for poor countries and internatio...
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