Article Archive
Please click below to view any of the articles in our archive.
Springfield, Ill., Jul 20, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Some news reports got it wrong: Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput’s guidelines on Holy Communion and divorce-and-remarriage were “certainly correct” and in line with Pope Francis and Catholic teaching, an Illinois bishop has said.“The Bible clearly teaches about the proper disposition to receive Holy Communion in the First Letter to the Corinthians,” Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois said July 15.St. Paul says in that letter that those who receive unworthily will be “guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.”Canon law reflects this biblical teaching, the bishop said in the Illinois newspaper the State Journal-Register.Bishop Paprocki criticized press coverage of Archbishop Chaput’s response to the Pope’s 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia. He said an Associated Press report was misleading to say that Archbishop Chaput was “cl...
Vatican City, Jul 20, 2016 / 01:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Though rumors have been floating for some time, the Vatican confirmed that the Pope will meet with 10 Holocaust survivors during his upcoming visit to Auschwitz while in Poland for World Youth Day.After arriving to Auschwitz and passing under the arch of the main entrance on foot, Francis will be taken by car to Block 11, where he will be welcomed by Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, as well as the 10 survivors.The Pope “will individually meet” with each of the survivors, “the last of whom will be given a candle,” Fr. Federico Lombardi told journalists July 20.One of the survivors, he noted, is 101 years old and is hosting a group of pilgrims who are traveling to Krakow to participate in WYD.In addition to the survivors, Francis will also meet with 25 “Righteous among the Nations” from all over the world. The phrase is an honorific title bestowed by the State of Israel on non-J...
Cleveland, Ohio, Jul 20, 2016 / 02:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It merited only one paragraph in the 2016 GOP platform, but the party’s stand against pornography is drawing commendation from all sides, not only conservatives and Catholics.“I would argue, surprisingly, that this is the most progressive piece in the platform,” Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Wheelock College and founder of Culture Reframed, a group that educates about “pornography as a public health crisis in the digital age,” told CNA.The 2016 GOP platform calls pornography a “menace” and a “public health crisis” that especially hurts children – language not used in the 2012 platform. It further acknowledges the link between child pornography and human trafficking, which the 2012 platform also noted.The U.S. Catholic bishops already warned of the danger of pornography in a pastoral response issued in November, “Create In Me a Clean Heart.” The...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The CriterionBy Sean GallagherINDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- Violenceripped through the country the first part of July with police shootings in Minnesotaand Louisiana and the killing of five police officers in Dallas.A day after the July 7 shootingsin Dallas, violence ripped through the neighborhood surrounding St. Philip NeriChurch on the near east side of Indianapolis when two men were found shot deadat an intersection.On July 10, about 30 people tookaction to replace the violence around St. Philip with peace by prayerfullywalking through the neighborhood, stopping at a makeshift shrine at thelocation where the two men had been found two days earlier.It was part of a series of nineprayer walks on Sunday afternoons sponsored by St. Philip Neri Parish thatbegan June 5 and concludes July 31. Participants gather at the church and walkalong different routes in the surrounding neighborhood for about a mile,praying the rosary in both Spanish and English."Peace has...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- After police killed a man outside a convenience store and protesters filled the streets, the first black mayor of the Louisiana capital seemed to be conspicuously missing. Kip Holden's absence was so glaring that demonstrators called for his resignation....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games could prove deadly for the city's poor black people, a delegation of U.S. activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and local activist groups warned Wednesday....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas' strict voter ID law discriminates against minorities and the poor and must be weakened before the November elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, giving more than a half-million registered voters a likely easier path to casting a ballot....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency following a botched coup attempt, declaring he would rid the military of the "virus" of subversion and giving the government sweeping powers to expand a crackdown that has already included mass arrests and the closure of hundreds of schools....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Liar. Garbage. Lock her up....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times EDT):...
