IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Amanda Noles By John Shaughnessy CANNELTON, Ind. (CNS) — Tom Huber, former parish council president at St. Michael’s Parish in Cannelton, was touched by the note he received this summer from a mother who wanted to make a special birthday wish come true for her son. "My …

IMAGE: CNS photo/David Agren By David Agren PROGRESO, Honduras (CNS) — Jesuit Father Ismael Moreno has watched migrants leave this crossroads in northern Honduras for decades, starting with his own brother, who left for the United States in 1989. In recent months, he has watched people close to him leave: …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Simon Caldwell By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — An English bishop is creating a green oasis in the grounds of his residence in the hope of inspiring visitors to heed the call of Pope Francis to "care for our common home." Bishop John Arnold of Salford has …

IMAGE: CNS photo/James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald By James Ramos SAN ANTONIO (CNS) — Crowding around a painted portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish friar who died in a German concentration camp during World War II, prison inmates and retreat leaders smiled for a group photo at a recent …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Tim Aeppel, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — The 1919 "Bishops’ Program for Social Reconstruction" was showcased in this year’s Labor Day statement to demonstrate how so many of the issues the bishops touched upon a century ago in the wake of World War I’s end still …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While listening to and obeying God’s word brings healing and comfort to those in need, it also can attract disdain and even hatred from others, Pope Francis said. Christians are called to proclaim the love of God through …

IMAGE: CNS photo/NASA, NOAA handout via Reuters By VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Describing the Amazon rainforest as "vital for our planet," Pope Francis joined the regions bishops in praying for action to extinguish the massive fires burning there. "We are all worried about the vast fires that have developed in …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald By Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — From his elevated perch on the shoeshine stand near Concourse C of Louis Armstrong International Airport — a nondescript wooden platform with two blue-padded chairs and four metal footrests — Wayne Kendrick notices everything and …

IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By FREIBURG, Germany (CNS) — Responding to criticism of notes he published about the roots of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, retired Pope Benedict XVI said the fact that the critiques barely mentioned God proved his point. "As far as I can see, in most reactions to …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Katie Rutter By Katie Rutter LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) — Sustainability is a lesson that even the leader of a green-minded school admits she is learning. Students at St. Agnes School in Louisville, Kentucky, took energy surveys of their elementary campus and caught the principal red-, or rather, hot-handed. …