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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Only packrats would save copies of old newspapers. Or so you would think.But a consortium of librariansand archivists are preserving the Catholic news from the last century.As newspapers age, their pagesget more brittle and fragile. And outdated technologies such as microfilm andmicrofiche keep those newspapers from being readily accessible unless you livenear a big downtown library or a university that still has the machines needed toread that data.Many Catholic newspapers, unliketheir secular daily brethren, were not kept, maintained and preserved with thesame level of passion, save for some diocesan archives.To correct this situation, theCatholic Research Resources Alliance has undertaken a project to digitizenearly a dozen of the United States' top Catholic newspapers of regional andnational importance -- the print runs of which, for some of them, go back formore than a century."Creating a Catholic newsarchive and d...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- The chairmen of two bishops' committees expressed disappointment Feb. 1 over President Donald Trump's decision to retain a 2014 executive order by hispredecessor, Barack Obama, that bans federal discrimination on the basis ofsexual orientation and gender identity against federal employees and workersfor federal government contractors.Trump'saction is "troubling and disappointing" said Archbishop Charles J.Chaput of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, FamilyLife and Youth, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB Ad HocCommittee for Religious Liberty.Theexecutive order, they said in a joint statement, is "deeply flawed." In a July21, 2014, statement, Archbishop Lori and Archbishop Chaput's predecessor as committee chair,Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, labeled the executive order "unprecedentedand extreme and should be opposed."In the2014 statement, Archbishop Lo...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When it comes to helping the poor, themarginalized and refugees, Pope Francis urged Catholics not to mimic the"Mannequin Challenge"by just looking on, frozen and immobile.The video version of his prayer intention for Februarybegins with a street scene of people doing a "Mannequin Challenge," theviral internet craze in which people freeze while music plays in the background.The prayer intention and "The Pope Video"illustrating it are distributed by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network,formerly known as the Apostleship of Prayer.The intention the pope chose for February is: "That allthose who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees and marginalized, mayfind welcome and comfort in our communities.""We live in cities that throw up skyscrapers andshopping centers and strike big real estate deals, but they abandon a part ofthemselves to marginal settlements on the periphery," the pope says in thevideo. "The result of this situation is that great s...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump sought prayers Thursday for Arnold Schwarzenegger over ratings for "Celebrity Apprentice" - the show Trump once hosted and which he said has become a "total disaster" since the former California governor took over the franchise....
AMONA, West Bank (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Thursday vowed to establish a new West Bank settlement "as soon as possible," promising to make up for the court-ordered demolition of an illegal settler outpost....
SMYRNA, Del. (AP) -- Police used a backhoe to breach a building at Delaware's largest prison early Thursday, ending what the governor called a "torturous" hostage standoff that left one guard dead....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning that religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump warned in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart that he was ready to send U.S. troops to stop "bad hombres down there" unless the Mexican military does more to control them - comments the White House described as "lighthearted."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Thursday his administration has put Iran "on notice," echoing comments from his top national security adviser that the U.S. will act against Iran unless it stops testing ballistic missiles and supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher is wrapping up a week-long visit to Japan during which he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and celebrated Mass in the city of Hiroshima.The Vatican Secretary for Relations with States confirmed the Holy See's cooperation with Japan regarding the elimination of nuclear weapons.On Wednesday Archbishop Gallagher held a ‘Lectio Magistralis’ at the Jesuit-run University of Sophia in Tokyo, dedicated to the promotion of a culture of peace.During his lesson, Gallagher spoke of the important contribution made by a Catholic University which takes into account a global and not merely intellectual formation of the whole person.Quoting Pope Francis he said that “if the university becomes no more than an academy of ideas or an assembly line of professionals, or its structure is determined by a business mentality, then it has truly lost its way”.He said that one must never tire of looking at the world...
