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.

Antoinette Bosco, retired CNS columnist, death penalty opponent, dies at 91

The mother of seven, including a homeless boy she adopted, wrote for the Catholic news wire for 37 years and other secular publications.

Forty years after St. Romero’s martyrdom, El Salvador sees a harvest of martyrs

Soon-to-be Blessed Rutilio Grande and companions March 12, 1977: MartyredAug. 16, 2016: Local canonization process ceremonially closedFeb. 22, 2020: Martyrdom formally recognized Fr. Rutilio Grande, SJJuly 5, 1928: BornJuly 30,...

As people are ordered to stay home, pope calls for help for homeless

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As national and local governments have been issuing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Pope Francis asked people to pray for and assist those who are homeless.

Texas Catholic family’s quarantine dancing video goes viral

HOUSTON (CNS) — When health officials recommended self-isolation to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ali Hoffman and her parents, Michael and Michele, found themselves quarantined in their Fort Worth-area home.

Via phone, priest helps dying man through act of contrition, prayer

The phone was his lifeline, literally, to the sacrament of reconciliation.

Priority on economy over people may lead to ‘viral genocide,’ pope warns

Some governments that have imposed lockdown measures "show the priority of their decisions: people first."

During pandemic, priests work to bridge distance between deceased, family

The ministers are also offering blessings and a dignified temporary place of rest before the departed's ultimate burial.

Accurate count enables local Church to carry out mission

Participation in the U.S. Census is not only constitutional, it’s biblical. St. Luke makes note of this when describing the birth of Jesus.

Pandemic casts spotlight on a nearly forgotten martyr: St. Corona

BONN, Germany (CNS) — She had become nearly forgotten. Little is known about the young woman who was killed for her Christian faith, presumably in the second century A.D. But now, a pandemic is shedding light on her: St. Corona.