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• Panel advising Vatican unanimous that Archbishop Romero is a martyr

  January 22, 2015

  VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A panel of theologians advising the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes voted unanimously to recognize the late Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as a martyr, according to the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference. The panel declared Jan. 8 that the archbishop had been killed “in hatred for the faith,” Avvenire reported Jan. 9. […]

• Supreme Court agrees to take up same-sex marriage cases this term

  January 22, 2015

  WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Supreme Court Jan. 16 agreed to hear four cases over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, tackling the questions of whether the 14th Amendment requires states to allow such marriages and whether it requires them to recognize same-sex marriages licensed in other states. In brief orders, the court accepted petitions from Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky […]

• Pope, at Mass with millions, tells Filipinos to protect the family

  January 22, 2015

  MANILA, Philippines (CNS)—Pope Francis told a crowd of an estimated 6 million gathered in a Manila park to protect the family “against insidious attacks and programs contrary to all that we hold true and sacred, all that is most beautiful and noble in our culture.” The pope’s homily at the Jan. 18 Mass also reprised […]

• Tears often are only correct response to suffering, pope tells youths in Philippines

  January 22, 2015

  MANILA, Philippines (CNS)—The realities of life described by young people, especially the tearful question of a 12-year-old girl about why God allows suffering, led Pope Francis to set aside the first text he had prepared for a meeting Jan. 18 with the young people of the Philippines. “Certain realities in life can only be seen […]

• No snow day excuses likely after BT succeeds in online classroom try

  January 22, 2015

  ROSWELL—John Wellford’s challenge was how to teach Spanish to students miles from school who checked into his virtual classroom. The Blessed Trinity High School teacher set aside a lesson on new vocabulary and verb conjugations. Instead, students explored the cultural history of Spain. They watched a video tour he created using Google Earth, traveling from […]

• U.S. ambassador who fought for truth about churchwomen’s murders dies

  January 22, 2015

  ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS)—Former U.S. ambassador Robert E. White, who put his diplomatic career on the line to get answers to the 1980 murders of four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador, died of cancer at a hospice in Arlington Jan. 13. He was 88 years old. Funeral details were not immediately available. At the time of […]

• Magnificat invites women to Feb. 21 gathering

  January 22, 2015

  ATLANTA—At the next Magnificat gathering for women, Dianne Aube, a parishioner of St. Stephen the Martyr Church, in Lilburn, will be speaking of her faith journey. The Magnificat meal will be held on Saturday morning, Feb. 21, at Holy Cross Church in Atlanta from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. All women are invited to attend […]

• ‘American Sniper’ depicts heroism, avoids larger issue of war

  January 22, 2015

  NEW YORK (CNS)—For those seeking an insight into an individual veteran’s perspective on the Iraq War, director Clint Eastwood’s sober drama “American Sniper” (Warner Bros.)—which stars Bradley Cooper as real-life Navy SEAL Chris Kyle—will likely hit home. Yet moviegoers in search of a bigger-picture moral assessment of that conflict, or of armed clashes in general, […]

• In Philippines, pope urges end to corruption, which injures poor

  January 22, 2015

  MANILA, Philippines (CNS)—In a nation plagued repeatedly by corruption scandals, Pope Francis urged “everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption, which diverts resources from the poor.” After an official welcoming ceremony Jan. 16 at the Malacanang Palace, the pope addressed President Benigno Aquino III, government officials and diplomats representing their […]

• Georgia Catholic, Jewish congregations to jointly mark jubilee of renewed dialogue

  January 22, 2015

  ATLANTA—This year the Archdiocese of Atlanta and American Jewish Committee (AJC) Atlanta Regional Office together will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council document “Nostra Aetate,” which transformed the church’s approach to Judaism after centuries of troubled relations and birthed a new era of partnership. They are inviting neighboring Catholic and Jewish congregations […]