Employers, courts examine religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates
November 15, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Religion usually stays out of the workplace, but now with expanding COVID-19 vaccine requirements, employees’ personal faith is front and center as… Read More
Nurture hope tomorrow by healing pain today, pope says
November 15, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The gift of hope becomes tangible in people’s lives through concrete actions that seek to relieve the suffering of the poor… Read More
Pope urges Ratzinger Prize winners to hold fast to truth like Pope Benedict
November 15, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Honoring an Australian theologian, a French philosopher and two German theologians, Pope Francis prayed that they may continually be inspired by… Read More
Bishops’ focus on Communion crisis highlights bigger issue, theologians say
November 14, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When the U.S. bishops highlighted Communion in their spring meeting, announcing their plans for both a document on the Eucharist and a… Read More
Catholics who don’t receive Communion shouldn’t be shamed, scholars say
November 12, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When Diane Davis was preparing for her first Communion in the 1970s, she asked her mother why she didn’t go up to… Read More
Treasuring the widow’s mite: Vatican finance reform is long, slow process
November 12, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The day after Catholics around the world heard the Gospel story of the widow’s mite, Vatican media published a long interview… Read More
Belfast
November 12, 2021
NEW YORK (CNS) — In 1969, as the wider world focused on such events as Apollo 11’s mission to the Moon, long-simmering sectarian tensions in… Read More
Laudato Si’ Action Platform set to integrate encyclical into church life
November 12, 2021
The Vatican’s seven-year plan to widen the reach of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment is just what the church needs in a time… Read More
Eucharistic revival could ‘move needle’ on understanding of Real Presence
November 12, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Toni Guagenti of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was raised in a traditional churchgoing Catholic family and educated in the teachings of the church,… Read More
At COP26, Vatican delegation calls for solidarity with poorer nations
November 12, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the U.N. Climate Change Conference was nearing its final day, the Vatican delegation urged parties to deliver on the financing,… Read More
