Article Archive
Please click below to view any of the articles in our archive.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Grzegorz Momot, EPABy Jonathan LuxmooreWARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- Young people attending World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland, may have to walk up to nine miles to and from one of its key sites, event organizers said."They'll have to be ready for a long foot journey of several hours, but this has always been a feature of World Youth Days," said Anna Chmura, WYD's communications coordinator."There'll be several designated routes, mostly from Krakow, and they'll all be used heavily. But we're confident the logistics and security have now been carefully worked out," she told Catholic News Service.The event, which runs July 26-31, is expected to bring 2 million people from 187 countries to the southern Polish city. They will be accompanied by 47 cardinals, 800 bishops and 20,000 priests.The July 30-31 vigil and Mass, on the fourth and fifth days of Pope Francis' visit, will require nearly all of the participants to make the nine-mile journey to Campus Misericordiae, nea...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gary Cameron, ReutersBy NEW YORK (CNS) -- Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, NobelPeace Prize recipient and prolific author who died July 2 at age 87 in his NewYork home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standingup for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities ofthe Holocaust.When Pope Francis received the Charlemagne Prize May 6 forpromoting European unity, he quoted Wiesel urging Europeans to undergo a"memory transfusion," to remember their fractured past whenconfronting issues that threaten again to divide it.In its July 4 edition, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vaticannewspaper, said Wiesel's legacy was his "appeal for collectiveresponsibility in the face of horror and his call to unite the abilities ofeach person in pursuit of what is good."That sentiment has been echoed by many.President Barack Obama described Wiesel as "one of thegreat moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of theworld."And Vi...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Campaign 2016 weeks before the Republican and Democratic national conventions (all times EDT):...
LONDON (AP) -- Thirteen years after British troops marched into Iraq and seven years after they left a country that's still mired in violence, a mammoth official report is about to address the lingering question: What went wrong?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny....
Washington D.C., Jul 5, 2016 / 12:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On America’s 240th Independence Day, Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh called on Catholics to be “footnotes” for the truth that is Christ.“I would like to suggest, on this Fourth of July celebration, as we mark the end of our Fortnight for Freedom of 2016, that we take a look at how you and I are called to be footnotes. And footnotes to the truth that is none other than Jesus Christ, Himself,” Bishop Zubik exhorted the congregation at the July 4 closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom.Using his undergraduate term papers as an example, the bishop explained that footnotes “help to embellish the truth of whatever is being conveyed. Footnotes strengthen the message that is being put forth.” Similarly, by their living witness, Catholics should point to Christ, he said.Bishop Zubik preached the homily at the closing Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom, held Independence Day at the Basilica...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic StandardBy Mark ZimmermannWASHINGTON(CNS) -- The theme for the 2016 Fortnight for Freedom, "Witnesses to Freedom,"unfolded as 1,500 people spent part of their July 4 holiday in Washington attendingthe observance's closing Mass and venerating the relics of two English saints martyredin 1535 for their Catholic faith.TheMass and veneration took place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of theImmaculate Conception. After the Mass, people waited in a long line to kneeland pray before the relics of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More displayednear the altar.Welcomingthe congregation, Msgr. Walter Rossi, the shrine's rector, said those filling whatis the largest Catholic church in North America offered "testimony that thefreedom to live our lives according to our faith is fundamental to the life ofbelievers."TheU.S. Catholic Church's fifth annual Fortnight for Freedom closing Mass includedthe participation of three of the petitioners in a rec...
PARIS (AP) -- Intelligence failures, in France and abroad, led to the failure to foil attacks in Paris last year by Islamic radicals that killed 147 people, while rival units of security forces trapped by rules and stepping on each other's feet made the situation worse during the attacks, the head of an investigating commission of lawmakers concluded Tuesday....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The government minister largely responsible for security in Baghdad submitted his resignation Tuesday, two days after one of the biggest bombings in more than a decade of war and insurgency killed 175 people as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan came to an especially bloody conclusion....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Eight years after Hillary Clinton helped unite Democrats behind Barack Obama's presidential campaign, he's returning the favor....
