Cardinal: Business must ensure products, services contribute to common good October 8, 2022By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Cardinal Peter Turkson, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, told a New Orleans symposium that the Catholic Church encourages CEOs and other business leaders to embrace the notion of their being “co-creators” with God.
U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso April 7, 2022By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The attack in which Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, was abducted from her convent in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, the morning of April 5 was conducted by at least 10 armed men, the Marianites of Holy Cross said in an electronic newsletter.
Priest recalls saying Mass in Ukrainian church reopened after 45 years March 31, 2022By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Msgr. William Bilinsky was in Ukraine as a volunteer translator for retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, the peripatetic founder of Focus TV who was interviewing Catholics behind the Iron Curtain about how they had struggled to keep the flame of faith alive during a half-century of religious oppression.
Pandemic has changed parish outreach methods ‘forever,’ says evangelist May 22, 2020By Peter Finney Jr. Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, World News During two months of social isolation, the work of American business has migrated, ready or not, into the home.
Archdiocese of New Orleans files Chapter 11 reorganization May 4, 2020By Peter Finney Jr. Filed Under: News, World News Citing mounting concerns over the financial impact of clergy sex abuse settlements and the coronavirus pandemic, the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for Chapter 11 reorganization of the finances of its administrative offices May 1 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.