By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) — Allowing priests to celebrate Mass in the language of the local congregation rather than in Latin allowed the faithful to understand and be encouraged […]
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On International Women’s Day, Pope Francis thanked women, “who in thousands of ways, witness to the Gospel and work in the church.” The […]
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After going to confession, Catholics should perform a “corporal work of mercy” by inviting someone else to receive the sacrament, said a top […]
By Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who retired as archbishop of New York in 2009, died March 5. The cause of death was cardiac […]
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Four nationally circulated Catholic publications called for abolishing the death penalty in the United States in a jointly published editorial. America, National Catholic […]
Click here to subscribe to the weekly podcast in iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/todays-catholic-news/id327573267 This week’s issue covers the Rite of Election of Catechumens and the Call to Continuing Conversion of Candidates held […]
By Chaz Muth NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — Ryan Leahy of Chicago walked up to an employee on the snow-covered campus of the University of Notre Dame March 3 and […]
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Seeing the elderly only as a burden “is ugly. It’s a sin,” Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience. “We must reawaken […]
By Tim Johnson FORT WAYNE — The Rite of Election of Catechumens and the Call to Continuing Conversion of Candidates have been celebrated in the cathedrals of the Diocese of […]
Higher education leader, diplomat, touched lives of many NOTRE DAME (CNS) — Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, who led the University of Notre Dame through a period of dramatic […]
New Confirmation curriculum to be implemented By Tim Johnson FORT WAYNE — The unveiling of a new diocesan seventh- and eighth-grade religious education curriculum and new Confirmation program was showcased […]
On the approaching Third Sunday of Lent, we will hear the Exodus account of the Ten Commandments revealed by God to Moses. The Ten Commandments are called the “Decalogue,” meaning […]
