Archive for June 8, 2015

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrives at the Vatican for her audience with Pope Francis, June 7, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

Pope Francis meets with Argentina’s president, and sends a present home

Pope Francis on Sunday met with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president of his native country. She assured the Roman... Read more

Bishop Heiner Koch, who was appointed Archbishop of Berlin June 8, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

Bishop Heiner Koch, a German delegate to Family Synod, appointed Berlin archbishop

The Vatican confirmed on Monday, June 8 that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Heiner Koch of Dresden-Meissen as Archbishop of... Read more

Papal altar, chair and ambo built for Pope Francis' trip to Washington D.C. at the portico of the National Shrine. ?w=200&h=150

By Adelaide Mena

An altar for Pope Francis: CUA students' design to enliven DC Mass

For most graduating college seniors, the final weeks of school focus on exams, saying goodbyes and looking to their next... Read more

Heels and sneakers. ?w=200&h=150

Pope Francis: Men and women are different for a reason

The value and beauty of marriage, based on the complementarity of man and woman, is lamentably being challenged by “gender... Read more

Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil in his cathedral city, March 28, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

By Ann Schneible

Among the ruins of Iraq, Christians' faith burns brightly

Despite the potential threat from the nearby Islamic State, several monks and students in northern Iraq have found refuge in... Read more

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Image of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, beside sealed boxes of documents compiled during the diocesan phase of his canonization cause.

Diocesan phase completed for canonization of Father Pedro Arrupe

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education, speaks to CNA during the USCCB’s fall plenary assembly on Nov. 13, 2024.

U.S. bishops embrace Dignitas Infinita to combat ‘widespread violation of human dignity’

Bishop Carlos Herrera is president of the Bishops’ Conference of Nicaragua.

Dictatorship in Nicaragua expels president of country’s bishops’ conference

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Florida church bookkeeper sentenced to federal prison after stealing $875,000 from parish

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on Nov. 10, 2024.

Pope Francis asks Rome’s Catholics to help combat ‘housing emergency’ during 2025 jubilee

Left: Protesters burn a bishops’ circular in front of St. Mary’s Basilica, the cathedral of Ernakulam Archdicoese in India. Right: An elderly woman puts a burning circular into a bin in front of Vazhakkala, India, church.

Liturgical conflict resurfaces in troubled Indian Syro-Malabar archdiocese

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New Senate majority leader John Thune an ‘unwavering defender of life’

Pope Francis meets with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley on Nov. 14, 2024, at the Vatican ahead of a meeting of the Pontifical Academy for Life titled “Common Good: Theory and Practice” in which Mottley was a panelist. The academy’s meeting discussed the global financial system in light of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and crises that have impacted the world.

Vatican meeting highlights ‘common good’ as key objective to reform global financial order

Ernest Board (1877-1934), “Albertus Magnus Teaches in the Streets of Paris.”

St. Albert the Great: The Church and science are in harmony

Immigrants at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley humanitarian respite center in McAllen, Texas.

U.S. Catholic bishops urge immigration reform with ‘fair and humane treatment’

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