Targeting world poverty has shown results, advocates say
Living in extreme poverty, pegged at income below $1.90 a day, nosedived from 40% in 1981 to 12% in 2015.
Catholic leaders praise Colorado’s repeal of death penalty
It's the third state in as many years to do so and the third since the Vatican's 2018 revision to the Catechism declaring it eternally inadmissible.
Rome parishes to lend classroom space to public schools
Public schools in Rome, like elsewhere in the world, are scrambling to ensure the safety of students and staff while also resuming classroom instruction.
March for Life theme borrows page from suffragist centennial
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The March for Life, the annual march in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women’s suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Regis Philbin dies; Catholic TV host logged 17,000-plus hours on tube
Regis Philbin, the Catholic talk- and game-show host whose career in television spanned six decades, died July 24 at age 88 of cardiovascular disease.
In fall meeting, U.S. bishops examine challenges faced by church, society
Pressing issues raised by the bishops included the priesthood shortage, gun violence, young people leaving the church and the need to provide support services for pregnant women.
New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of the Nazi-run death camp’s liberation was marked in Israel and Poland.
‘She came and prayed asking St. Sharbel to cure her’
The Monday of Jan. 18, 2016 was not just your ordinary day in Phoenix. It is a day that will always be remembered as the day that Dafne Gutiérrez, a young blind Hispanic woman and mother of four children, got her vision restored to normal through the intercession of St. Sharbel.
Catholic communities mourn death of son of a federal judge killed at home
Schools and a Catholic parish in New Jersey expressed pain but also offered prayers following the killing of 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, son of a federal judge, who was a student at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
Jesuit superior warns of pandemic’s threat to democracy
Human lives and jobs are not the only things threatened by the coronavirus pandemic: In many countries, democracy and efforts to build a more just world also are under attack, said Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.
