Media mindfulness for a digital age
How can we integrate a reflective, spiritual life with all the media we consume and create?
Flush the lies from one’s heart to see God, pope says at audience
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Seeing and growing closer to God require purifying one’s heart from the sins and prejudices that distort reality and blind people to God’s active and real presence, Pope Francis said.
Brooklyn priest who died from virus called ‘great missionary among us’
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn March 28 announced the death of Fr. Jorge Ortiz-Garay, 49, who died the evening before from COVID-19.
Media literacy skills for Catholics
With an average consumption of over 12 hours of electronic mass media daily in the U.S., they're vital skills to have and use.
USCCB president calls for national moment of prayer on Good Friday
WASHINGTON — Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has invited U.S. Catholics to join him on Good Friday, April 10, to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart at noon (EDT), 9 a.m. (Arizona Time).
Nonprofits continue food, vital services amid coronavirus concerns
Their methods have changed but their servant's heart remains unwavered.
Site crashes as half million-plus watch England’s rededication to Mary
WALSINGHAM, England (CNS) — English Catholics rededicated their country as Mary’s Dowry “in the eye of the storm” of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sisters’ work during 1918 Spanish flu seen as model for crisis today
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide.
Child Abuse Prevention Month
With churches effectively closed through April, the potential for abuse this month is greater within the domestic church, the home.
Pope sends video message ahead of Holy Week
He prays especially for those suffering and for all the families whose lives have been upset in this difficult time.
