DENVER (CNS) – The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) is sponsoring a video contest that features $10,000 in cash prizes. The contest, called “Imagine + Nation,” is aimed at filmmakers ages 18-30 and strives to raise up the next generation of storytellers to give them a platform to share “their unique voice and creativity,” […]
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It’s Beginning Too Early To Look Like Christmas
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Already. Even before Halloween jack-o-lanterns were carved, retailers were advertising the joys of Christmas gift-giving – and getting – on television. And no sooner will the Thanksgiving turkey be carved before radio stations start playing Christmas music, some of them nonstop, […]
Virgin and Child Stamp
This Christmas stamp, one of the official holiday stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service, features Mary and the Christ child. The image is a detail from Jan Gossaert’s 1531 oil-on-wood painting “Virgin and Child” from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Nation’s Youth Gather in Indianapolis
At the opening session of the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis Nov. 21, teens sing and move to a song in Lucas Oil Stadium. More than 23,000 youths from across the country were taking part in the conference.
50 Years Later
Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas delivers the invocation Nov. 22 during the “The 50th: Honoring the Memory of President John F. Kennedy” ceremony at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Behind him is the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club. Seated to the bishop’s left are historian David McCullough and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Bon Jovi: Together, We Can Help the Homeless
by Peter G. Sanchez CAMDEN, N.J. (CNS) – Musician Jon Bon Jovi visited the future site of Joseph’s House of Camden in an effort to ensure that Camden’s homeless would no longer just be “Livin’ on a Prayer.” “Today we have the opportunity to see the progress on what a year ago was just a […]
Bishops on Budget Concerns: Protect Dignity of Human Life
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Every decision Congress makes about the federal budget “should be assessed by whether it protects or threatens human life and dignity” at home and abroad, the chairmen of two bishops’ committees told U.S. Senate and House leaders working on a budget package. “A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how […]
Bishop Asks Special Status For Filipinos Living in US
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The “widespread loss of life and property” in the Philippines caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) warrants granting temporary protected status to Philippine citizens residing in the U.S., a U.S. bishop told federal officials in a Nov. 18 letter. The status, known as TPS, allows citizens of the designated country to reside […]
New Evangelization Is The Talk of the Bishops
Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros of Brooklyn, left, and Auxiliary Bishop Nelson J. Perez of Rockville Centre, L.I., center, chat with Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City during a gathering of bishops and Church leaders at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City Nov. 16. The leaders from the Americas met Nov. […]
Church of Kennedy Funeral Viewed as ‘Holy Ground’
by Mark Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – On Nov. 25, 1963, a television audience of millions of people around the world prayerfully bid farewell to President John F. Kennedy, as his flag-draped coffin was placed before the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., during the funeral Mass for the slain […]