Catholic News from The Pilot: America's oldest Catholic newspaper.

Featured

Colombian bishops welcome government backing down from gender ideology
On: 8/16/2016, Staff , In: World
Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 15, 2016 CNA/EWTN News.- The Colombian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the government's announcement that it will not promote or implement gender ideology in the nation’s schools, after massive marches of ...

More

Featured

Colombian bishops welcome government backing down from gender ideology
On: 8/16/2016, Staff , In: World
Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 15, 2016 CNA/EWTN News.- The Colombian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the government's announcement that it will not promote or implement gender ideology in the nation’s schools, after massive marches of ...

More
France offering all Assumption Masses for the country's intentions
On: 8/16/2016, Elise Harris , In: World
Paris, France, Aug 15, 2016 CNA/EWTN News.- Following the wave of Islamist terror attacks that have bloodied France since last year, the country’s bishops have decided to offer all Masses on the Feast of the Assumption for France. In an Aug. 1 ...

More
Archbishop Chaput urges Catholics not to vote 'on autopilot'
On: 8/16/2016, Staff , In: Nation
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 15, 2016 CNA.- In his latest column for the Philly Catholic Archdiocesan paper, Archbishop Chaput shared some of his personal thoughts on the upcoming presidential election, and implored Catholics to take the time to pray and form ...

More
Violence in Milwaukee unrest 'a self-inflicted wound,' says archbishop
On: 8/15/2016, , In: Nation
MILWAUKEE (CNS) -- Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee called the violence that broke out in the city as part of protests over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man "a self-inflicted wound." "Violence is never tolerated. Protests ...

More
Louisiana bishop comforts evacuees at shelters; flooding displaces 20,000
On: 8/15/2016, , In: Nation
BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) -- As Louisiana's governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state Aug. 14, Catholic churches in the Baton Rouge Diocese called for volunteers to help those displaced by extreme flooding and ...

More

2016 election marked by passionate electorate, coarseness, incivility
Tom Tracy
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- With the raucous Republican ...
A-Rod
Clark Booth
You gotta hand it to the Yankees, mates, no matter how ...
Wilmington Catholic Community
Susan Abbott
The parishes of Saint Dorothy and Saint Thomas of Villanova ...
Remembering prolific architect Patrick C. Keely
Thomas Lester
August 9, 2016, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth ...

Colombian bishops welcome government backing down from gender ideology

Bogotá, Colombia, Aug 15, 2016 CNA/EWTN News.- The Colombian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the government's announcement that it will not promote or implement gender ideology in the nation’s schools, after massive marches of protest last week.

Paris, France, Aug 15, 2016 CNA/EWTN News.- Following the wave of Islamist terror attacks that have bloodied France since last year, the country’s bishops have decided to offer all Masses on the Feast of the Assumption for France.

Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 15, 2016 CNA.- In his latest column for the Philly Catholic Archdiocesan paper, Archbishop Chaput shared some of his personal thoughts on the upcoming presidential election, and implored Catholics to take the time to pray and form their consciences before voting.

MILWAUKEE (CNS) -- Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee called the violence that broke out in the city as part of protests over the fatal police shooting of an African-American man "a self-inflicted wound."

BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) -- As Louisiana's governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state Aug. 14, Catholic churches in the Baton Rouge Diocese called for volunteers to help those displaced by extreme flooding and asked flood victims what assistance they needed.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- The dust had hardly settled on Catholic Relief Services' work fighting the world's worst Ebola outbreak before the team was putting together a response to the Zika virus in the West African island nation of Cape Verde.