Synod auditors: ‘Green’ family planning [VIDEO]
Alice and Jeff Heinzen, a lay couple participating in the synod on the family, discuss the importance of Natural Family Planning to the church's teaching on the family.
Archbishop: Church teaching is pastoral care [VIDEO]
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher discusses the relationship between church teaching and pastoral care.
Families of missing Mexican students cling to faith as search continues
Families of 43 students who "disappeared" in Guerrero state spend their time praying at the teacher training college the students attended.
American Catholics on family synod [VIDEO]
Parishioners at Rome’s Church of Santa Susanna discuss their hopes for the synod on the family.
Speakers ask pope, synod to clear up ‘confusion’ on contraception
A married couple from Brazil told Pope Francis and the Synod of Bishops that the church should stop giving "contradictory advice" on birth control and help Catholics obey church teaching against contraception.
U.S. bishops emphasize traditional marriage after Supreme Court action
After the Supreme Court Oct. 6 declined to review rulings overturning five states' bans on same-sex marriage, several U.S. bishops criticized the court's inaction and reiterated that according to church teaching, traditional marriage is a union between one man and one woman.
Because of Ebola crisis, people ‘can’t even go to church,’ says priest
Father McDonald Nah is praying that the people of Liberia are just as resilient with the Ebola outbreak as they were following the country's civil war more than a decade ago.
BVM sister dies
Sr. Mary Faith Lautz, BVM, 96, died Oct. 1 in Dubuque, Iowa. The longtime educator was principal at Xavier College Preparatory from 1966 to 1974 and went on to serve in the Midwest, Alaska and California as an educator, administrator and in pastoral ministry.
Phoenix seminarian in Rome takes step closer to priesthood
Fernando Camou, a seminarian for the Diocese of Phoenix, counted himself among 43 seminarians from Rome’s Pontifical North American College who were ordained to the transitional diaconate inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 2.
The Bishop’s Hour: ‘State of the Church’ [AUDIO]
On this special edition of The Bishop's Hour, listen to Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted's remarks from the Sept. 23 "State of the Church" luncheon in downtown Phoenix.
