‘Window into heaven’ greets parishioners at renovated Queens church
August 6, 2021
EAST ELMHURST, N.Y. (CNS) — From the outside, St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother Catholic Church blends well with the drab brick buildings that line… Read More
Agencies guide renters in accessing pandemic emergency assistance
August 6, 2021
CLEVELAND (CNS) — Affordable housing advocates at Catholic Charities agencies and elsewhere are working intently to help renters access billions of dollars in federal Emergency… Read More
The Suicide Squad
August 5, 2021
NEW YORK (CNS) — Nearly everything about “The Suicide Squad” (Warner Bros.), writer-director James Gunn’s DC Comics-based follow-up to 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” is intentionally over-the-top. Read More
N.Y. priests urged not to give religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines
August 5, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) — As some Catholics are seeking a religious exemption to the coronavirus vaccine mandates that are becoming more common in workplaces and even… Read More
‘Cooking with Father Cooper’ on Facebook Live brings food, faith together
August 5, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — While brainstorming ways to help her fellow parishioners at Divine Mercy Church in Kenner, Louisiana, prepare for Easter, Becky Delatte thought… Read More
Knights name 2021 International Family of Year, honor five local councils
August 5, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — The Knights of Columbus named the Steciak family of Rembieszyce, Poland, as the organization’s 2021 International Family of the Year. Read More
‘Today is a day of strength’: Mass commemorates Beirut blast victims
August 5, 2021
BEIRUT (CNS) — A year after the catastrophic Beirut port blast, the wounds of the people in Lebanon are scarred by the memory of the… Read More
Musicologist hopes to reconstruct 12-century organ from Bethlehem church
August 5, 2021
JERUSALEM (CNS) — Frozen in time, like a “musical Pompeii,” the 221 remaining original organ pipes from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem may… Read More
Federal judge blocks Texas order stopping transportation of migrants
August 4, 2021
A federal judge Aug. 3 temporarily blocked an order issued by the governor of Texas to halt transportation of migrants by anyone other than local… Read More
Only Jesus reveals true Gospel, pope says at first audience after surgery
August 4, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The true Gospel has been revealed by Jesus Christ, not by individuals or founders of movements, Pope Francis said during his… Read More
