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Pope sends cardinal to South Sudan to urge peace
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jok Solomun, Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis sent a high-ranking cardinal to South Sudan to urge a peaceful end to the escalating violence in the country. Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, met with President Salva …
Parish sows peace as violence marks life in neighborhood, nation
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion By Sean Gallagher INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Violence ripped through the country the first part of July with police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana and the killing of five police officers in Dallas. A day after the July 7 shootings in Dallas, violence ripped through …
Former Our Sunday Visitor publisher named CNS director, editor-in-chief
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Greg Erlandson By Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) — Greg Erlandson, former president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, has been named director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service, effective Sept. 12. Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced the appointment …
Poland visit will be inspired by mercy, pope says
IMAGE: Nancy Wiechec By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said he looks forward to his upcoming visit to Poland for World Youth Day and that his visit will be inspired by mercy during this Jubilee Year. The “blessed memory of St. John Paul II, who instituted …
Sisters’ ‘lemonade ministry’ in Cleveland opens dialogue on country’s needs
IMAGE: CNS photo/William Rieter By Dennis Sadowski CLEVELAND (CNS) — Sister Julie Ann Krahl knew that a cup of lemonade on a hot summer day can go a long way toward making friends. So she offered a refreshing drink from a cooler pulled along in a child-size wagon and talked …
Priest’s prayer reminds GOP convention of importance of all human life
By Dennis Sadowski CLEVELAND (CNS) — When Msgr. Kieran Harrington delivered the invocation on the opening night of the Republican National Convention, it wasn’t just a coincidence that he ended up on the same stage where high-scale politics would dominate for four days. The priest from the Diocese of Brooklyn, …
Churches among those swept up in Pokemon Go craze
By Jennifer Brinker ST. LOUIS (CNS) — Since its release in the United States July 6, Pokemon Go has quickly become a cultural phenomenon. In the first week, the mobile game attracted nearly 21 million users, according to data from Survey Monkey, making it the most popular app in U.S. …
Pope offers to help, meet families following massacre in Nice
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis offered his help to the people of Nice in a surprise phone call following a deadly attack during Bastille Day celebrations, said the head of an association of Italians living in France. Paolo Celi, president of the France-Italy Friendship society, …
Bishop feels ‘deep ache in my heart’ after fatal shootings of police
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Bachman, Reuters By BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) — Baton Rouge Bishop Robert W. Muench renewed a call for a diocesan-wide week of prayer, fasting and reflection after the latest fatal shootings in the city, which this time took the lives of three law enforcement officers. He urged …
Healing racial divides starts with dialogue, black bishops say
IMAGE: CNS/Nancy Wiechec By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — The threat of being pulled over by police and arrested for something that even “hinted of going beyond the status quo,” was very real to retired Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, when he was growing up in segregated Baton …