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Logic of weapons, self-interest wreak havoc on Mideast, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via EPA By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said he will never give up calling for stronger efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and for people to stop being indifferent to the fate of the region’s people. “My daily prayer to …
Memorial for unborn in Toledo seen as answer to prayers to end abortion
IMAGE: CNS photo/Katie Breidenbach By Katie Breidenbach TOLEDO, Ohio (CNS) — The moment Ann Barrick stepped from the sidewalk onto the crumbling parking lot, her eyes filled with tears. “You pray about these things, and you never think you’re going to see it happen.” For nine years, Barrick stood on …
Fans remember Miami Marlins pitcher with parade, prayers at Cuban shrine
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports via Reuters By Tom Tracy MIAMI (CNS) — South Florida’s Cuban-American Catholic community and other Miami Marlins baseball fans planned to honor Jose Fernandez with prayers at the Cuban shrine and a public parade Sept. 28, a day before his private funeral. Fernandez, …
Shimon Peres, known for efforts to achieve peace, dies at 93
IMAGE: CNS photo/Abir Sultan, EP By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) — One of the last ceremonies in which former Israeli President Shimon Peres participated as a public figure took place in the Vatican Gardens in June 2014, the last month of his presidency. Along with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, he …
Pope pleas on behalf of civilians in Aleppo as bombing intensifies
IMAGE: CNS photo/Abdalrhman Ismail, Reuters By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As a brief cease-fire agreement failed and Syrian government forces returned to bombing Aleppo and fighting rebels in the city streets, Pope Francis made a forceful appeal for assistance for the thousands of innocent civilians trapped in the …
At all-school Mass, 12,000 pray for an ‘outpouring of the Holy Spirit’
IMAGE: CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit By Jessica Trygstad ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — An estimated 12,000 students, teachers and staff of Catholic schools filled a baseball park in downtown St. Paul Sept. 22 for the first all-school Mass of the Holy Spirit in the Archdiocese of St. Paul …
When times are tough, rant at God, don’t run from trouble, pope says
IMAGE: NS photo/L’Osservatore Romano handout via EPA By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Don’t respond to grief or anguish with pills, alcohol or avoidance, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. Figure out what is going on inside your heart, then turn to God and beg him for help, …
Benedictine archabbot was at golf legend’s bedside when he died
IMAGE: CNS photo/Hans Deryk, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki of St. Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died Sept. 25 in Pittsburgh. It wasn’t the first time Archabbot Nowicki had visited Palmer that day. Palmer, 87, …
Charlotte parishioners gather for prayer service, mourn protester’s death
IMAGE: CNS photo/Patricia L. Guilfoyle, Catholic Herald By Patricia L. Guilfoyle CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS) — Justin Carr’s future looked bright. He had just celebrated his 26th birthday, started a new job, and was getting ready to settle down with his high school sweetheart and start a family. But all that …
Three Mexican priests murdered within days; motives unknown
IMAGE: CNS photo/Diario Marcha, Handout via EPA By David Agren MEXICO CITY (CNS) — A priest abducted from his parish residence in the Mexican state of Michoacan has been found dead, the Archdiocese of Morelia confirmed Sept. 25. He was the third priest murdered in Mexico within days. State prosecutors …