By Christine Rousselle Duluth, Minn., Dec 1, 2019 / 12:44 pm (CNA).- Bishop Paul Sirba of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota died on Sunday, after suffering a heart attack before offering Mass. He was 59 years old. “It is with an incredibly heavy heart that I must inform you of …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Nativity scene is a simple reminder of something astonishing: God became human to reveal the greatness of his love "by smiling and opening his arms to all," Pope Francis said in a letter on the meaning and importance …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Jim West By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — Fifty years ago, the White House sponsored a Dec. 2-4 conference on food, nutrition and health designed to set the groundwork for a national nutrition policy and to advise President Richard Nixon on the best ways to eliminate hunger and …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis led prayers for the people of Albania after the country was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake. "I would like to send my greetings and my closeness to the dear people of Albania who have …

IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus By Andrew Fowler Father Dennis Callan’s health was rapidly declining. His situation was so dire that his dentist refused to even pull a tooth out of fear that the he would bleed to death. The cause? Advanced cirrhosis of the liver. A Divine Word …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin By Andrew Nelson CONYERS, Ga. (CNS) — There’s the father who regularly visits his buried son with a bag of doughnuts for the staff. There’s the request by a mother for Honey Creek Woodlands staff to tell her buried child "she still loves him" …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM JAPAN (CNS) — Questions about Vatican finances, especially those involving a real estate deal in London, are serious, but they also are a sign that reforms begun by Pope Benedict XVI are working, Pope Francis said. "This is …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters By Cindy Wooden TOKYO (CNS) — Pope Francis spent his last morning in Japan at the Jesuit-run Sophia University, celebrating Mass with his Jesuit confreres, visiting aged members of the Jesuit community and addressing students and staff. Once again he invoked the spirit of …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald By Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — For the third consecutive year, states in the Gulf South of the U.S. ranked near the bottom of a 2018 "social justice" index that measures poverty, racial disparity and immigrant exclusion, according to the Jesuit …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion By Sean Gallagher INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis might be described as a cathedral of football since tens of thousands of Indianapolis Colts fans faithfully fill it for the NFL team’s home games. But the organizers of the National Catholic Youth …