IMAGE: CNS/USCCB By Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic communications in all forms — print, digital, broadcast, social media — are essential to informing the Catholic faithful about the Catholic Church, two church communicators told Catholic News Service. "Now more than ever, when there’s such a barrage of secular news, …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike Stechschulte, The Michigan Catholic By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they were not formal sanctions and were not followed strictly, even during the papacy of Pope Benedict …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters By JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) — Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City expressed gratitude that lives were spared and that all residents of the Missouri capital are accounted for following a devastating tornado. He said in a May 23 statement that the staff of …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert Duncan By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle added a photo of his "Lolo Kim" to a mosaic of migrants, world leaders and Caritas workers to illustrate how humanity forms one family and is sharing one journey. The mosaic, now including the …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Nations, like individuals, have a "solemn duty" to care for the poor and to work together to promote development, Pope Francis told a group of ambassadors beginning their service at the Vatican. International cooperation for development and for peacemaking tap into …

IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy David Reich By NEW YORK (CNS) — Frank Siller, chairman and CEO of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, is the 2019 recipient of the Christopher Leadership Award. He is being recognized by The Christophers "for the invaluable aid he brings to catastrophically injured veterans, first …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters By Elizabeth Rackover Clancy RICHMOND, Calif. (CNS) — Eight years ago, "Game of Thrones" began on HBO and the worlds of water-cooler conversations, fire-breathing dragons and social media haven’t been the same since. To say it’s been a wild ride is the least of it. …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis led thousands of pilgrims in prayer for a Spanish missionary sister killed in Central African Republic. While greeting French pilgrims attending his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square May 22, the pope said he was …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Holy Spirit gives Christians the courage and the strength needed to engage in a loving dialogue with God that is like the dialogue of a child with his or her father, Pope Francis said. "Do not forget …

Father Pivonka assumes top pastoral and leadership duties immediately STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—In a unanimous decision, the Board of Trustees of Franciscan University of Steubenville elected Father David Pivonka, TOR, as the school’s seventh president on May 21. He succeeds Father Sean O. Sheridan, TOR, who has served as president since 2013. …