Bishop tells families to be God’s image for secularized society

Being created in the image of God is a mission, an adventure and a command that each Catholic is called to carry out into the world and something we need to rediscover as people of faith living in today's secularized culture, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles Sept. 21.

Key organizer of families’ meeting is cleared in Italian probe

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, has been dropped from a criminal investigation. An investigating judge and prosecutor cleared the archbishop of involvement in a land-purchase scheme in Italy.

Pilgrims and soldiers make their way to Phila. for papal events

As pilgrims from the Diocese of Erie drove across Pennsylvania Monday, Sept. 21 they met personnel of the Pennsylvania National Guard at a turnpike stop, also bound for Philadelphia.

Talk examines family as ‘home of holy anarchy’

The free panel discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center features one of Europe's leading Christian scholars, a cardinal, and two local professors who are each mothers of four children.

Sisters get busy making 100,000 Communion hosts

The Monastery of the Poor Clares in Langhorne is abuzz with work to bake 100,000 hosts for holy Communion at the papal Mass Sept. 27. See the process through our rare access into the cloister.

Sisters make communion hosts, but pray full time

The Poor Clare nuns in Langhorne are baking altar breads for the papal Masses in Philadelphia. But their main work is prayer, especially for the World Meeting of Families.

Long, winding road of church in Philadelphia comes to TV

“Urban Trinity: the Story of Catholic Philadelphia” airs in three parts this week on 6ABC Channel 6, and in its entirety at the World Meeting of Families Film Festival.

‘Minnesota’s Mother Teresa’ to get private papal audience in Washington

Mary Jo Copeland, 73, who founded Sharing and Caring Hands in 1985, will meet the pontiff in person, along with her husband, Dick, and Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Holguin Catholics delighted their time has come for papal visit

Popes have come and gone from Cuba, and this city of 300,000 or so always has prepared but never has been picked for a visit by a pope -- until now.

After decades of separation, Cuban-Americans return to homeland

HAVANA (CNS) — With looks of astonishment and joy, dozens of Cuban-Americans stepped off a charter flight from Miami to Havana Sept. 18 in advance of Pope Francis’ visit. For many, it was a first return to the island nation after decades of separation and distrust following the Cuban Revolution. The 2015 papal visit, along […]