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After Columbine: How one survivor found faith, and a vocation
By Jonah McKeown Denver, Colo., Dec 30, 2019 / 07:01 am (CNA).- Many years before she entered religious life, Sister Mary Gianna Thornby was an ordinary high school sophomore at Columbine High School in the suburbs of Denver. Like many high schoolers, she occasionally struggled with her identity, had experienced …
Pope Francis asks families to put down their phones on Holy Family feast
By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Dec 29, 2019 / 05:30 am (CNA).- On the feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged families to get off their cell phones and talk to one another. “In your family, do you know how to communicate with each other, or …
Cardinal Dolan: Antisemitic attacks ‘sickening’ and must be ‘condemned completely’
New York City, N.Y., Dec 29, 2019 / 04:02 pm (CNA).- On Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York condemned the recent spate of attacks against Jewish people in New York, following a stabbing that left five people injured during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home on Saturday night. …
Vatican magazine looks at women in the church in the age of Pope Francis
IMAGE: CNS/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis sees the "masculine monochrome" of leadership and influence in the Catholic Church as "a defect, an imbalance" that harms the church itself and its mission of proclaiming the Gospel to the world, said the lead article in a …
Put the phone away and talk to each other, pope urges families
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis prayed that people all over the world would end 2019 "in peace, peace in their hearts," and that families would mark New Year’s by "communicating with one another." Reciting the Angelus prayer Dec. 29, the feast of …
Chilean church leaders seek ‘manger of solidarity’ after Christmas fires
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rodrigo Garrido, Reuters By VALPARAISO, Chile (CNS) — Chilean church leaders called for Catholics to respond with prayer and solidarity to aid about 1,000 people who lost their homes in fires that swept through hillside neighborhoods around the southern port city of Valparaiso on Christmas Eve and Christmas. …
Strong online boundaries make for the happiest relationships, study finds
By Mary Farrow Washington D.C., Dec 27, 2019 / 02:55 am (CNA).- Cutting ties with old flames, before the internet, used to be easy. After a break-up, people could easily lose touch with their ex, who could move or change phone numbers. Tracking them down, sans Google or social media, …
College freshmen found faith through friendship
By Perry West Denver, Colo., Dec 23, 2019 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- The phenomenon is well-documented. When young Catholics go away to college, a troublingly high percentage of them stop practicing their faith. And many who stop going to Mass in college never return. Initiatives like FOCUS, and Newman Centers …
Notre-Dame still at risk of destruction, says rector
By Christine Rousselle Paris, France, Dec 27, 2019 / 09:12 am (CNA).- This year Christmas Mass was not celebrated at Notre-Dame de Paris for the first time since the French First Republic, and the cathedral’s rector says that there is a significant chance the building cannot be rebuilt safely. The …
Missouri priest finds beauty in the ‘king of instruments’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jay Nies, The Catholic Missourian By Jay Nies JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) — Mozart proclaims the organ to be the "king of instruments," but it actually works more like a parliament. It reigns when its panoply of voices speaks in harmony and balance, with whispers and crescendos drawing …