VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In their first encounter, Pope Francis received U.S. President Barack Obama at the Vatican March 27 for a discussion that touched on several areas of tension between the Catholic Church and the White House, including religious freedom and medical ethics.
Catholics from throughout the State of New York, including diocesan locals, travelled to Albany March 19 to speak with and pray for their state representatives.
Catholic Migration Services will assist hundreds of eligible individuals and families complete naturalization applications April 5.
The Pontifical Mission Societies announced the recovery of some $1.1 million in stolen funds.
Thousands of rare manuscripts will go online over the next four years.
by Father Brian Jordan, O.F.M. After conducting the 10 a.m. Ash Wednesday service in the chapel of St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, I asked those attending to please pray for me since I would be attending a federal appeals court hearing the next day in Foley Square. I was the Franciscan priest who blessed the […]
On the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan reviewing the St. Patrick’s Day Parade are, from left, Msgr. Robert Romano, NYPD chaplain; Sgt. Edward Conroy, president of the NYPD Brooklyn-Queens Holy Name Society; Cardinal Timothy Dolan; Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio; and Msgr. David Cassato, NYPD chaplain.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican with the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the day after pro-Russian voters on the Crimean peninsula voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum the United States and European Union called illegal. While Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, head of the Eastern-rite church […]
N.Y. State bishops were recently in Albany to rally support for education investment tax credit legislation.
WASHINGTON (CNS) – A bipartisan invitation to Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress if he comes to the U.S. in 2015 recognizes “the importance of the qualities” the pontiff embodies that resonate with people around the globe, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. Those qualities include “a desire for peace, care […]
