WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Although the thought of standing with throngs of people for hours at a time seems foreign now in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it was something tens of thousands of Catholics were happy to do in Washington, New York and Philadelphia when Pope Francis made his visit to the United States five years ago.
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CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2020 CNA.- As the Trump Administration looks to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, the coming judicial session features a slate packed with religious freedom cases. The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday created the first opening on the Court during a fall or spring term since 2017; the Court’s opening conference for the fall is on Sept. 29.
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CNA Staff, Sep 18, 2020 CNA.- After controversy surrounding the film “Cuties,” Netflix subscribers are cancelling the service at eight times the normal rate, an industry magazine has reported. The film’s release on the streaming service has triggered sustained backlash from customers and commentators for its sexualized presentation of a group of 11-year old girls.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd said House passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Sept. 17 is a "huge win for women." The measure, H.R. 2694, prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for job applicants or employees affected "by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions." This applies to private sector employers with over 15 employees as well as public sector employers.
Read moreWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Herbert A. Bevard of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and named Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory as apostolic administrator.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- In imposing severe restrictions on indoor worship services because of COVID-19 protocols, the city of San Francisco "is turning a great many faithful away from their houses of prayer," said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Catholic congressman who is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called the Middle East peace accord signed Sept. 15 at the White House a "momentous pact" he hopes "is the beginning of several future peace accords to strengthen peace within the region."
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CHICAGO (CNS) -- With the help of Catholic Extension and two other organizations, four Catholic dioceses in Puerto Rico were selected to receive to $82 million in "hazard mitigation funding" from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Three U.S. Catholic bishops said that a proposed modification to a 2016 federal rule governing who temporary and emergency shelters must take in "is a step in the right direction" because it allows faith-based facilities more flexibility.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- Milly and Mike Pungercar, members of St. Alice Parish in Springfield, are among the approximately half-million Oregonians, or 10% of the state's population, who by Sept. 11 had received an evacuation order or warning amid raging wildfires.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Authorities in El Paso, Texas, have apprehended a suspect who is said to have entered the border city's St. Patrick Cathedral Sept. 15 and destroyed an almost 90-year statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Whether Catholic voters favor a candidate most in line with their own basket of priority issues or whether they look for character and competency or just look to party affiliation, the Catholic electorate has plenty to mull over in 2020.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As this unusual school year gets underway, Boston College freshmen were reminded that they've already been through a lot and were urged -- as college graduating seniors usually are -- that they have to go out and change the world.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Pew Research Center study released in September shows that teens' religious practice is less than that of their parents. The lessened observance cuts across all denominational lines.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- At a time when all people are yearning for a message of hope, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington wants the church to be ready to use all manner of media to proclaim the good news of the Gospel.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Groups that support immigrants have lodged a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General saying that a nurse has come forward with detailed allegations of mass hysterectomies she said have been performed on immigrant women in detention in a Georgia facility.
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Washington D.C., Sep 11, 2020 CNA.- Catholic teenagers mirror American teenagers overall on many religious trends, a report by the Pew Research Center says. A Pew report published Sept. 10 examined the religious identities and beliefs and American teenagers and their parents. “U.S. Teens Take After Their Parents Religiously, Attend Services Together and Enjoy Family Rituals,” Pew reported, but added that the teens usually do so “at parents’ behest” and many of them privately hold different beliefs.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The worldwide coronavirus pandemic cast an unmistakable shadow over an otherwise hopeful prayer service Sept. 14 on the eve of the opening of the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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ST. LOUIS (CNS) -- Amid heated discussion and ongoing debate on a COVID-19 vaccine -- how soon it will be available and who should get it -- the Catholic Health Association has a lot to say. The group, which is based in St. Louis and oversees more than 2,200 Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the U.S., highlighted its stance on the vaccine's development and distribution in a September letter to a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
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(CNA) -- When Jimmy Macdonald found himself floundering in the waters of Lake George in New York next to his tipped kayak, he thought he might die. He had been enjoying a relaxing August day on the lake with his family, meditating and snapping pictures. He kept his lifejacket in the boat -- he didn't think he would need it, he told Glens Falls Living.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new podcast series, "Crisis," has debuted, which examines the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. church. Produced by the Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, Washington, its 10 episodes plan to recount the history of the crisis and church leaders' responses to it.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- While the foothills of Oregon's Cascade Mountains have been ablaze, creating red apocalyptic skies and leaving five small towns in ashes, most of the churches in the Archdiocese of Portland have not burned and many have offered shelter to thousands of evacuees.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholics' hunger for a moral vocabulary in the final two months of the presidential race is unlikely to be successfully addressed by either nominee. Other than the terror of COVID-19, there appears to be no single issue to effectively rally around, participants in an online Georgetown University panel observed Sept. 8.
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CLEVELAND (CNS) -- Bishop Shelton J. Fabre's recent call to fast in response to racism on the feast of St. Peter Claver, Sept. 9, was a call to be attentive to the inequalities across society and acknowledge the sin of racism that continues to exist.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- The commander of U.S. Navy Region Southwest in San Diego announced late Sept. 8 that for at least the next year, she was reversing her earlier decision to end Catholic services on three Navy bases.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A leader with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged Congress and the White House Sept. 8 to reach a deal on the next COVID-19 relief package that meets the urgent needs of the nation.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) -- This is a typical story really about Paulist Fathers, a floating Tiki bar and a kayaker. It all started when Greg Barrett, a captain for Tiki Tours, offered the Paulist Fathers -- two fathers and five seminarians -- a free, relaxing tour around Lake George, which is 60 miles north of Albany, in August.
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WINDSOR TERRACE, N.Y. (CNS) -- A moratorium on evictions in the U.S., announced Sept. 1 by President Donald Trump, will keep thousands of Americans in their homes through the end of the year, but it does not cancel rents owed.
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BELOIT, Kan. (CNS) -- Home schooling was not something the Ring family in Beloit set out to do long term. "It happened by accident," is how Amanda Ring, the mother, explained it. And now, amid COVID-19 restrictions, they find they are part of an expanding group, although they are more used to the routine than those just starting.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) -- Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco has asked the city's mayor and health officials to ease attendance restrictions on public Masses the archbishop says are unfair.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For John Davisson, the past few months of the pandemic in Washington gave him more time to return to a hobby that began during his childhood: making Lego designs. He started with a few pre-made kits but decided to dip into his own creations -- first a replication of his home and then a model of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
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NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Louisiana priests that support each other with ongoing camaraderie and spiritual nourishment are now also providing very essential hurricane relief to priests and the parishes they serve in areas that were devastated by recent storm damage.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, college student Aalayah Eastmond, of Trinity Washington University, spoke of her dream Aug. 28, at the place where iconic civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech 57 years before.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- John Thompson, the Hall of Fame college basketball coach who guided Georgetown University in Washington to a national championship in 1984, died Aug. 31 at age 78. No cause of death was given.
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(CNA) -- Evidence suggests that church services following public health guidelines do not present a greater risk of spreading the novel coronavirus than other similar activities, doctors said last week.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) -- More than 35 clerics representing the Catholic, Orthodox and Islamic faith traditions of Lebanon met in Brooklyn to pray for victims of a deadly explosion in Beirut and for an end to the decades of violence and instability in that country.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Most movie patrons head for the exits once they see the closing credits start rolling. Those who do that after watching "Fatima," though, will miss not one, but two songs performed by the famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, a Catholic.
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