by Sarah Delaney VATICAN CITY (CNS) – After languishing in storage for more than 30 years, three giant collages and other works by French artist Henri Matisse have been given a permanent home in the Vatican Museums. The new space dedicated to the cartoons, models and other preparatory work Matisse did for a small chapel […]
Twenty-two years after leaving 273 Willoughby Ave.’s Convent of Mercy, Mercy Home for Children is joyfully returning with a grand homecoming celebration on June 23. A “Welcome Home” party is scheduled for all the staff, volunteers, participants and families. Founded 149 years ago, Mercy Home began when the Sisters of Mercy took in five boys […]
Three students from Sacred Heart of Jesus School, Bayside, have collected over 3,500 children’s book to donate to San Andres, a school in a poor mountain village in the Philippines that had no library for its students. The students, Christopher Wren, Maggie Cash, and Liz Gold, named their newly formed organization “Reading Rocks the World” […]
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) – Many pro-life faculty on college campuses in the United States and Canada have experienced a strong sense of isolation and disrespect for their views, said the newly installed president of University Faculty for Life. They also often are denied university resources that are commonly available to other faculty and some […]
by Beth Griffin Catholics who minister to the nation’s military veterans help aging soldiers heal from past wars and support men and women trying to resume civilian life after multiple tours of duty in distant outposts. They work alongside chaplains of many faiths, in multidisciplinary teams that treat the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wounds […]
U.S. bishops gather for Mass June 15 before the opening session of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual spring meeting near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash. BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – The U.S. bishops June 16 approved a policy statement on physician-assisted suicide, the first on the issue by the bishops as a body, and they […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, On June 5 of this year, the Church will celebrate the 45th World Communications Day with theme, “Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of the Life in the Digital Age.” Forty-five years ago, communication was remarkably different than it is today. Although the invention of the television made tremendous […]
BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) — Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, Calif., urged his fellow bishops June 15 to fight back in the war of words over efforts to redefine traditional marriage. The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage said organizations advocating the legal redefinition of […]
All parishes of the diocese have been asked to conduct a spiritual observance in honor of the 60th anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. The Congregation of the Clergy in Rome has suggested that each diocese offer 60 hours of Eucharistic adoration to observe the milestone in […]
by Gabrielle Mariano The air was heavy with heat, and the sky sunk down on to the crowded Brooklyn streets. It felt as though swimming would be the only means of travel through the sea of folks. The sun hung lazily against the thick curtains of blue and clarified the heavens with radiant light. It […]
