Archive for August 25, 2015

Msgr. Vissanu leads an interreligious prayer service in Bangkok for the victims of the Erawan shrine bombing, Aug. 21, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

Thai Catholics join in interreligious prayer service after Bangkok bomb

Catholics in Bangkok gathered together with their fellow countrymen last Friday to pray for peace in the wake of the... Read more

Cardinal William Levada, emeritus prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. ?w=200&h=150

Cardinal Levada voices regrets after DUI arrest in Hawaii

Cardinal William Levada, a retired Vatican official, was arrested last week for allegedly driving under the influence while vacationing in... Read more

Men work on rebuilding homes in Visayas, Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. ?w=200&h=150

By Hillary Mast

What does servant leadership look like on a global scale?

For Catholic Relief Services' president Dr. Carolyn Woo, the way to lead others is to humbly admit when you don’t... Read more

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By Kevin J. Jones

Amid threat of violence, CRS works to ease food shortage in Mali

Despite a hazardous situation in the African country of Mali, Catholic Relief Services is working to support displaced people and... Read more

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Are Vatican officials involved in the Ashley Madison leak? Nope.

Early this week, a leak of personal data from millions of users of Ashley Madison, a website designed to arrange... Read more

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Wyoming governor pledges to appeal after judge blocks state pro-life laws

Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598.

What do we know about the presentation of Mary?

Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya.

Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish

Jimmy Lai’s wife, Teresa (left), and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai’s national security trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.

Jimmy Lai takes the stand in yearslong Hong Kong national security trial

Senior fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center Joseph Meaney speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.

Vietnam, with one of the highest abortion rates, leads UN initiative on premature births

Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 20, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis reads Ukrainian student’s moving testimony of faith at general audience

Before the wooden coffin is closed, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli, the Vatican’s lead master of ceremonies for papal liturgies, place a white veil over the late pope’s face. The action on Jan. 4, 2023, is part of the funeral rites for popes.

Vatican simplifies funeral rite for popes

The Supreme Court of India.

Church leaders will appeal Indian Supreme Court order for tax on salaries of clergy

Argentine President Javier Milei walks past President-elect Donald Trump as they attend the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.

How will Trump impact abortion, gender, and migration policies in Latin America?

Memorial tree in Mayfouk, Lebanon, in remembrance of Christians killed in the Lebanese civil war.

Red Wednesday in the Land of the Martyrs 

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