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Guatemala’s new president faces U.S. challenges on migration
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By David Agren GUATEMALA CITY (CNS) — Sunday Mass Aug. 11 at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Guatemala City included prayers for the two candidates running in that day’s runoff election and the country’s outgoing president. A woman at the Mass said, "We pray for the …
Mexican Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera dead at age 87
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera, retired archbishop of Xalapa, Mexico who was created a cardinal by Pope Francis a little over a year ago, died at the age of 87. According to Vatican News, Cardinal Obeso died Aug. 11 …
Smell, taste of sauerkraut marks successful Wisconsin parish festival
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass By Sam Lucero BEAR CREEK, Wis. (CNS) — Food, music and games are all essentials for a successful parish festival but at St. Mary Parish, another key ingredient is the smell and taste of sauerkraut. Since 1965, this farming community has been home to …
In new interview, pope explains aim of synod, warns against nationalism
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon is an "urgent" gathering, not of scientists and politicians, but for the church whose main focus in discussions will be evangelization, Pope Francis said in a new interview. However, the …
Catholic Extension announces aid for families of deported breadwinners
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rich Kalonick, courtesy Catholic Extension By CHICAGO (CNS) — Catholic Extension will be helping families left without their main financial supporter in Mississippi, where families lost their breadwinner after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out massive raids Aug. 7. Federal authorities said they arrested 680 people at …
Bishop: Shootings show ‘all communities are affected by racism’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Three mass shooting incidents in the United States in the span of a week are now showing that "their emotional impact is resonating, understandably, across the nation," said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ …
On anniversary, Japan’s bishops renew hope for nuclear-free world
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the bishops of Japan are renewing calls and prayers to build peace by abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide and promoting integral human development. They also expressed …
Priest at parish near El Paso shooting: ‘Let’s take care of each other’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Callaghan O’Hare, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Father Michael Lewis, parochial vicar at St. Pius X Parish in El Paso, Texas, first heard about the shooting that took place a mile and a half from his parish, he said he would do whatever was needed. …
Dayton Catholics see need to spur action from mass shooting
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters By Don Clemmer Nick Cardilino thought he understood solidarity and the human family. Then he woke up to the news Aug. 4 of the mass shooting at a bar in Dayton’s Oregon District and remembered that his son had been a few blocks away, at …
Update: Teen who died saving classmates in school shooting made a Knight
IMAGE: CNS photo/Knights of Columbus By MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — As residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mourned the loss of 31 people in mass shootings Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, the Knights of Columbus honored a teen who died in May trying to save the lives of his …