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Recording Elder’s History: Duwel and Langen Bring Their High School to the Community
Editor’s Note: This article was posted in 2023. As we get ready for Football Season 2024, how the Elder News Network runs. Story and photos by M.D. Pitman Elder is not just a high school for Adam Duwel and Jack Langen. For them – and the current student body and …
Phil Donahue, talk show pioneer and ‘lapsed Catholic’ who courted controversy, dies at 88
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 17:20 pm Phil Donahue, a self-described “lapsed Catholic” who reinvented the daytime television talk-show format beginning in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in New York at age 88. Born in Cleveland in 1935 and raised in a Catholic family, Donahue …
Christian newscaster fired for circulating pro-life petition speaks out
by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 12, 2022 / 14:00 pm A Nebraska television station fired its news director and co-anchor after she collected signatures for a pro-life petition aimed at making her hometown of Curtis a sanctuary city for the unborn. Melanie Standiford, a Nebraska native, told CNA …
Pope Francis: Witness to the truth by exposing ‘fake news’
Vatican City, Jan 23, 2021 / 04:15 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis issued a new warning about misinformation on Saturday, weeks after he was the subject of a viral “fake news” story. Writing in his World Communications Day message, released on Jan. 23, the pope said that “the risk of …
Cardinal Dolan: AP report on paycheck loan program ‘misleading at best’
CNA Staff, Jul 15, 2020 / 06:01 pm MT (CNA).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has written a response to an Associated Press report that characterized Catholic participation in the federal Paycheck Protection Program as an “aggressive pursuit of funds.” The July 10 AP story, authored by Reese Dunklin …
Pope phones family of slain U.S. journalist
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis phoned the bereaved family of a U.S. journalist killed by Islamic State militants in Syria. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the pope phoned relatives of the late James Foley on Aug. 21 to console them for their loss and assure …
Cardinal shares media tips he learned at ‘school of hard knocks’
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME — Thanking communications professionals who work for the Catholic Church, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York also shared with them tips he said he learned at the “school of hard knocks.” When facing reporters, he said, “their initial posture often might be …
Conclave Central: Complete coverage of the 2013 conclave
This period of sede vacante will end sooner rather than later as 115 cardinal electors in Rome are now in a conclave where in a spirit of prayer and discernment they will select the next pope. Refresh this page often for continuing updates of news related to the conclave and …