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Benefit concert for Notre Dame Cathedral to end with Resurrection piece
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — An organist from Notre Dame Cathedral — performing an April 26 benefit concert in Washington for the reconstruction of the iconic Parisian church — will end his program, fittingly, with a piece about Christ’s resurrection. The concert at the Basilica …
Church needs joyful disciples, pope tells young people, deaf association
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In back-to-back audiences with a group of French young people and an Italian association for deaf people, Pope Francis cited personal example and witness as a vital piece in the church’s evangelization mission. Meeting with young people from …
As refugee child, she knew no English; now as teen, she’s poetry champ
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Oregon Arts Commission By Katie Scott PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — Belise Nishimwe remembers what it’s like to feel voiceless. Born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, she came to Portland at age 5 unable to speak or understand English. She couldn’t pass her first year of kindergarten. …
Balkans visit: Pope to touch sensitive issues of ecumenism, migration
IMAGE: CNS photo/Alexandros Avramidis, Reuters By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will head to the Eastern periphery of Europe May 5-7, visiting Bulgaria and North Macedonia, both predominantly Orthodox countries with a small, but active Catholic minority. Christians in both nations claim the great 9th-century evangelizers, Sts. …
Jesus replaced law of revenge with law of love, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The scales of justice cannot solve everything, especially when it comes to stopping a cycle of evil vengeance, Pope Francis said. "Evil knows revenge and if it is not halted, it risks spreading, suffocating the whole world," he …
Bishop says ‘love of Christ’ compels him to proclaim Gospel of life
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Kurt Jensen WASHINGTON (CNS) — Preservation of the family, marriage and the unborn were the main themes of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington April 23. "Faith in the crucified and risen Christ shields us from two cold …
Volunteer gardener at crisis maternity home provides balm for the wounded
IMAGE: CNS photo/John Farmer de la Torre, Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — Outside of a week or two in the darkest days of winter, it’s always gardening season for Jana Hukriede. A key volunteer at Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri’s LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home …
Curia reforms put priority on evangelization, synodality, cardinals say
By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) — The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church’s missionary mandate with the creation of a "super-dicastery" merging two offices dedicated to evangelization. "The main point of the new apostolic constitution is that the church’s mission …
Encore: Argentine martyrs’ road to beatification recalls period of military rule
IMAGE: CNS photo/David Agren By David Agren LA RIOJA, Argentina (CNS) — Bishop Enrique Angelelli Carletti traveled to a rural corner of his diocese in July 1973 to celebrate the feast of San Antonio. He was run out of town instead. A mob organized by wealthy landowners pelted him with …
Update: Sri Lankan attacks are the latest in series of Easter-related incidents
IMAGE: CNS photo/Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters By COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS) — At least 290 people were killed and more than 500 injured in Easter attacks on three churches and three hotels in Sri Lanka. The bombings were the latest in a string of Easter season bombings by extremists. The others: …