IMAGE: CNS photo/Mariana Bazo, Reuters By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — Online child sexual abuse is a booming international business and religious congregations holding stocks in major telecom firms are stepping up their advocacy to thwart it. Led by Christian Brothers Investment Services, the effort involves a widening campaign designed …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By David Sedeno DALLAS (CNS) — Dallas police executed search warrants at three Diocese of Dallas sites May 15, saying that process was an extension of their ongoing investigation of sexual abuse allegations into six current or former priests, including one accused of sexually abusing three …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CNS) — By passing a bill to ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, the Alabama Legislature has recognized that abortion is "the extinguishing of a unique human life," said the president and CEO of Americans United for Life. "From conception to natural death, …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians recognize life’s great paradox that so much evil and temptation exist in the world, but that God is always present, too, ready to help and give people the strength to persevere, Pope Francis said. Each person has been …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Mike Matvey ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — The numbers are so staggering that it has been called "torture." Solitary confinement is in widespread use in prisons across the United States and, in New York state alone, more than 3,000 inmates are isolated in 6-by-10 cells for …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Cindy Wooden By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During his visit to a center offering respite and food to refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski followed a sign that said, "Broken? Fix it here." The sign led to a shack where several refugees …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Joseph Ambuul, The Colorado Catholic Herald By Veronica Ambuul COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNS) — When news of a school shooting May 7 at STEM School Highlands Ranch reached St. Mark Parish, just two miles away, parish staff members immediately began calling the nine families from the parish known …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Ron Nicholl, Catholic Anchor By Rashae Ophus Johnson ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNS) — Of all the designer clothes, quirky conversation pieces and valuable antiques that have rotated through the thrift shop, Archangel Attic, maybe the greatest treasure to come from this modest Anchorage shop is the $1 million it …

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — Back in Rome less than 24 hours after visiting refugees in camps in Greece, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski turned on some lights and found himself being threatened by Italy’s deputy prime minister. The cardinal, who distributes charity on behalf of Pope Francis, went at 10 …

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world they need to send sisters on assignments that truly serve the church and those in need, and not agree to requests for "maids." "You …