Catholic News Service
German cardinal skips Mass to avoid priest accused of Nazi sympathies
German Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, canceled his participation in an upcoming Mass because one of the...
Faith groups decry immigration detention of pregnant women
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of groups objected to the detention of pregnant women by U.S. immigration officials, saying that they are deeply concerned "about...
Catholic Beer Club responds to millennials’ thirst for community
MINNEAPOLIS — Weeknight visitors to a Twin Cities craft brewery might stumble upon one of the newest young adult ventures in the Archdiocese of...
Latin American Catholics say ‘personal’ experiences boost evangelicals
VALENCIA, Venezuela — On a recent Sunday morning, Anderson Cedeno, 32, lifted his hands to the sky like the thousands around him, singing along...
Federal court affirms parish assets separate from archdiocese
MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal appeals court upheld two lower court rulings that the assets of Catholic institutions, including parishes, are separate from those of...
Australian Cardinal Pell ordered to stand trial on abuse charges
MELBOURNE, Australia -- After a monthlong pre-trial hearing, an Australian judge ordered Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse...
Catholic family finds healing after son’s drug overdose
HAMILTON PARK, N.J. -- Robert and Eleanor Reiss talked to their son, Bobby, in Palm Beach County, Florida, just two days before he died...
Pope asks Catholics to pray the rosary for peace each day...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis prayed that the hopes for peace strengthened by the meeting of the leaders of North and South Korea...
‘Sensus fidelium’: The sense of the faithful
"Sensus fidelium" is a Latin phrase that can be translated as the "sense of the faithful." The concept concerns how the faithful together understand...
Dismissal of Catholic House of Representatives chaplain sparks outrage
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The apparent forced resignation of the chaplain who tends to the spiritual needs of the U.S. House of Representatives and is...