IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy courtesy of Herbert and Ines Heinecke By Zita Ballinger Fletcher WASHINGTON (CNS) — As the heated Communion debate continues in Germany, an interchurch couple directly affected by the Catholic Church’s decisions shared their story with Catholic News Service. Herbert and Ines Heinecke have been married since 1994. …

IMAGE: CNS photo/David Maung By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Maybe it was the request by the Pentagon for 20,000 mattresses as military bases become, at least partly, shelters for detained border crossers. Maybe it was the federal government report that 2,342 children had been separated from 2,206 parents at …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican court found Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former staff member at the Vatican nunciature in Washington, guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography. Judge Giuseppe Della Torre, head of the tribunal of the Vatican City State, …

IMAGE: CNS By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A former staff member at the Vatican nunciature in Washington, accused of possessing and distributing child pornography, admitted his guilt to a Vatican court and said he had never engaged in such behavior before his assignment in the U.S. capital. …

IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Jason Miller, Franciscan Action Network By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bipartisan disagreement on how to fix the country’s immigration system led to failure once again as lawmakers on Capitol Hill turned down one immigration bill June 21 and postponed a vote on a second proposal, which …

IMAGE: CNS Photo/Robert Duncan By Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) — In the wake of historic allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up in countries around the world, the Catholic Church is experiencing the same challenge that has brought a reckoning to those who used their authority to abuse or silence …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM GENEVA (CNS) — The question of allowing Protestants married to Catholics to receive Communion at Mass in special cases has to be decided by each individual bishop and cannot be decided by a bishops’ conference, Pope Francis told …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz GENEVA (CNS) — At the end of a day dedicated to celebrating 70 years of an ecumenical fellowship forged by the World Council of Churches, Pope Francis turned to the region’s Catholics, reminding them of what lies at the heart of the faith. …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz GENEVA (CNS) — Not only God, but today’s broken, divided world is begging for unity among Christians, Pope Francis said on an ecumenical pilgrimage to Geneva. “Our differences must not be excuses,” he said, because as Christ’s disciples, Christians can still pray together, …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Vatican has told Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington, that he can no longer exercise any public ministry after an allegation that he abused a teenager 47 years ago was found credible. While maintaining his innocence, the cardinal …