MELBOURNE, Australia -- Cardinal George Pell was taken back to prison June 6 at the end of a two-day hearing on his appeal of his conviction on five counts of child sexual abuse.
A three-judge panel from the Appeals Division...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services banned the National Institutes of Health from using human fetal stem cells from electively aborted babies for government funded research June 5.
The department also issued a $20 million...
CAMDEN – Cape Henlopen scored six straight goals in the middle quarters to take a five-goal lead, then withstood a couple of rallies by Salesianum to take the 2019 Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association boys lacrosse title, 12-10, on June...
WILMINGTON – The Class of 2019 at Salesianum School had to make room for one more graduate at commencement May 31, but no one minded. One of the history-making students who attended the school when it was located at...
PHILADELPHIA -- If we, as the people of God, "come together and open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, we will see miracles," Metropolitan-Archbishop Boris Gudziak, the new head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States.
He made...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Springfield Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki issued a decree June 6 stating that Catholic lawmakers in the Illinois Legislature "who promoted or voted for extreme abortion legislation" cannot receive Communion in churches in his diocese.
He specifically named...
Sunday Scripture readings, June 9, 2019
Pentecost
Cycle C
Acts 2:1-11
Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34
2) 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17
Gospel: Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23-26
Pentecost is usually viewed as a talking event. Jesus' disciples come...
TORONTO — As if tariffs, climate change and immigration policy weren’t enough to put a wedge between Canada and the U.S., abortion legislation across the states — and the lack of a law in Canada — has become another...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee June 4 praised the U.S. House for passing a measure that gives permanent legal protection to “Dreamers” and those covered by the Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure programs...
VATICAN CITY — Too often when Catholics try to talk to young people about vocational discernment, “it’s as if we were speaking Esperanto to them, because they don’t understand a thing,” Pope Francis said.
Bishops, pastors, religious and other adults...