Church salutes veterans via Mass, community efforts
The diocesan Red, White and Blue Mass Nov. 8 marked the Church’s signature effort to honor veterans and service personnel who bravely stepped up for war and peacetime duty.
Framing Francis in Florence [VIDEO]
Everyone tries to get pictures of Pope Francis and pope-mania. Here's a look behind capturing those images.
Wichita bishop brings formal report on war-hero priest to Vatican
A week after the 65th anniversary of Fr. Emil J. Kapaun's capture in North Korea, the bishop of Wichita, Kansas, formally presented a report on the Army chaplain's life, virtues and fame of holiness to the Congregation for Saints' Causes.
Vocations Awareness Week
A dozen or so priests and women religious silently kicked it off a bit early on St. Vincent de Paul's main campus.
Priest builds ministry Lego by Lego [VIDEO]
A Pennsylvania priest has merged his faith and love of Lego to build a unique ministry worthy of a major metropolitan museum.
New Mexico priest, seminarians soup up car for vocations
GALLUP, New Mexico (CNA/EWTN News) — Fr. Matthew Keller has always been kind of a car guy. “Actually, a lot of a car guy,” he told CNA, laughing. He went to technical school as a teenager — “vocational school, funny enough” — and has worked on cars with his dad and brother-in-law since he was young.
Mexico mops up after Patricia; ‘nature was kind,’ official says
The storm struck Mexico as one of the strongest hurricanes ever registered in the Western Hemisphere, but it avoided populated areas by arriving in a region between Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta known as the Costa Alegre and quickly lost strength.
Annual celebration helps parents cope with the loss of their babies
Few among the group were regular churchgoers. But for at least one morning, they participated in the feast of the angels, a liturgical celebration organized by parish staff near what's designated as Infant Loss Remembrance Day in Canada and the United States.
Final report to be a general guide, not hard answers, says cardinal
After nearly three weeks of intense discussion and debate, the Synod of Bishop's final document on the family as aiming to be a reflection of the overall sense of the "mind of the house" and indicate some general pastoral directions, a cardinal said at a Vatican news conference Oct. 22.
Love does not take freedom away [VIDEO]
In his general audience talk, Pope Francis says there is no love without freedom and without freedom, there is no marriage.