Catholic News Service
Holy water sprayed from the sky blesses farming town in Louisiana
WASHINGTON -- Members of St. Anne Parish in Cow Island, Louisiana, gave their neighbors a Christmas blessing from the heavens, so to speak.
Working with...
Rehoboth Beach town officials violate First Amendment with ban of festive...
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.-- City officials in Rehoboth Beach are violating a Catholic group's constitutional right to free exercise of religion by banning its Nativity...
Waiting for Christ, the light of the world
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Advent is a time to watch and prepare for the coming of Christ just as vigilantly...
Contemplating Joseph as part of the Nativity mystery
At one point in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program each year I ask participants a seemingly simple question: "Is it possible...
Nuns who work with trafficking victims find high stakes, dark realities
ROME — Sister Mercy Muthoni would often suffer sleepless nights when she heard from the Cameroonian girls she helped escape human trafficking in Kuwait.
They’d...
Slain Jersey City police Det. Joseph Seals laid to rest after...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Thousands of people attended the Dec. 17 funeral Mass for Detective Joseph Seals, the police officer fatally shot Dec. 10...
Episcopalian Bishop Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to queen, to be received...
SHREWSBURY, England -- A former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II is to be received into the Catholic Church.
Bishop Gavin Ashenden of the Christian Episcopal...
Pope Francis accepts resignation of nuncio to France accused of misconduct
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Luigi Ventura, the nuncio to France, who has been under investigation for sexual...
Ever wonder the median length of a homily at Mass? It’s...
WASHINGTON -- If experience can't prove it, data scraping will: Catholic sermons are shorter than their Protestant counterparts.
According to an analysis of 50,000 sermons...
Our Lady of Guadalupe is ‘mother of us all,’ says Los...
LOS ANGELES — Mary, the Mother of God is “the mother of all of us,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his...