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Pope Francis is pictured next to Jesuit Father Frederic Fornos, head of the international Apostleship of Prayer, during the Angelus led from the window of his apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Jan. 20. The pope used a tablet held by Father Fornos to launch "Click to Pray," a new mobile app and online platform. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Resource not risk: Pope reflects on using social media for good

Cindy Wooden
January 24, 2019
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Social media are anti-social, anti-human and anti-Christian when they are used to increase differences, fuel suspicion, spread lies and vent prejudice, Pope Francis said in his message for World Communications Day.

A young adult shares a laugh with a priest in Panama City Jan. 23, 2019, at FIAT, the largest English-language World Youth Day event. Musical performances and testimonials were mixed with frank discussion about the clergy sexual abuse scandal. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)

Bishops address abuse scandal with U.S. pilgrims at World Youth Day

Rhina Guidos
January 24, 2019
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As Pope Francis was arriving in Panama Jan. 23, bishops from the United States wasted no time addressing the sex abuse scandal back home during a popular event aimed at American and other English-speaking World Youth Day pilgrims.

Women pray during a Holy Hour Jan. 22, 2019, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The service and Mass that followed it comprised a Prayer Vigil for Life marking the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. Jan. 22 is the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion across the nation. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

N.Y. bishops decry new law signed on Roe anniversary to expand abortion

Catholic News Service
January 24, 2019
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New York state “has become a more dangerous one for women and their unborn babies” with the passage of a bill to expand abortion called the Reproductive Health Act and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signing it into law, said the New York State Catholic Conference.

Louis Ashbourne Serkis stars in a scene from the movie "The Kid Who Would Be King." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II – adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (CNS photo/Fox)

Movie Review: ‘The Kid who would be King’

Joseph McAleer
January 23, 2019
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The Arthurian legend gets an inventive updating in “The Kid Who Would Be King” (Fox), a thrilling adventure that casts schoolchildren as latter-day Knights of the Round Table, destined to save the world

The Swiss Guard have starting using helmets made with a 3D printer and tough, weather-resistant ASA thermoplastic. The cooler, more lightweight headgear is crafted in the "morion" style of the Renaissance. The new ceremonial helmets were used by the 110 Swiss soldiers for the first time Jan. 22, 2019, during a special ceremony commemorating the 513th anniversary of their foundation by Pope Julius II. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Swiss Guard replaces metal helmets with 3D-printed plastic headgear

Carol Glatz
January 23, 2019
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While the Swiss Guard’s halberds and uniforms have remained largely unchanged over the centuries, its ceremonial helmets are now a product of 21st-century technology.

Brandon “B.J.” Pinkney (left), a parishioner of St. Bernardine in Baltimore, is among a delegation from the Archdiocese of Baltimore attending World Youth Day events in Panama. (Courtesy Archdiocese of Baltimore)

Door opens to Panama for Baltimore parishioner

Paul McMullen
January 23, 2019
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While Brandon “B.J.” Pinkney hopes to improve his prayer life at 2019 World Youth Day, it’s hard to imagine him coming home with any more gratitude than what he took to Panama.

Pilgrims pray during the opening Mass of World Youth Day in Panama City Jan. 22, 2019. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)

Panamanian prelate to World Youth Day pilgrims: Make the adults nervous

Rhina Guidos
January 23, 2019
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If there was a common denominator, aside from the Christian faith, that united most pilgrims heading to the opening Mass for World Youth Day 2019 in Panama, it was that each person, in his or her own way, faced a challenge back home. 

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on border security and the partial shutdown of the U.S. government from the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington Jan. 19. (CNS /Yuri Gripas, Reuters)

Bishops urge bipartisan plan to stop shutdown, protect ‘vulnerable’ groups

Julie Asher
January 22, 2019
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President Donald Trump and Congress “must come together” to reach a bipartisan solution that reopens the government and “recognizes the economic struggle” now facing federal workers and their families and all those helped by federal nutrition and housing programs, said two U.S. bishops.

Portraits of Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, flank a crucifix at St. Michael the Archangel Chapel in Farmingville, N.Y., in this Feb. 1, 2009 photo. Pope Francis has closed the pontifical commission responsible for traditionalist Catholics and turned over responsiblity for them to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Doctrinal congregation to handle relations with traditionalist Catholics

Cindy Wooden
January 22, 2019
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Pope Francis has closed the pontifical commission that had been responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics attached to the pre-Vatican II Mass, transferring the commission’s tasks to a special section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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