IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Proposals at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon for indigenous- or Amazonian-rite ceremonies are meant to enhance and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is not a "referendum" on priestly celibacy; it is looking for ways to provide for the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rodi Said, Reuters By Dale Gavlak AMMAN, Jordan (CNS) -- Church bells have been ringing in Qamishli and elsewhere in northeastern Syria, signaling the alarm to Christians and others...
By Jim Schroeder | It was a cool, rainy Friday night. My friend Rob and I had walked back to the house so we could get the Nissan NV, and pick up our wives and kids at the football game. As I went to...
By Fr. Roger Landry | At the beginning of this month, I had the joy to travel to Detroit to preach solemn vespers at the historic National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica on the feast day of the...
By K.V. Turley | VATICAN CITY — “To cry out. To walk. To give thanks. Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new saints. They walked by faith, and now we invoke their intercession. … Such is the...