ISSUES & ADVOCACY

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: For Idaho chef, faith is a vital ingredient of life

BOISE, Idaho -- Most people know chef  Lou Aaron for his culinary mastery, including the Idaho Ice Cream Potato, that draws crowds to his Westside Drive-in, a nationally recognized establishment given five stars on the  Food Network's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives."

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Author promotes 'radical' choices to thrive and live a joyful life

The idea of being burned on 100 percent of one's body defies the imagination, let alone survival. But some 30 years ago, 9-year-old John O'Leary experienced just that -- 87 percent were third-degree burns -- and lived. He emerged from his ordeal with a passion to live fully and to …

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Death-row experience interweaves lives of priest, man he helped free

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio -- When Father Neil Kokoothe first met Joseph D'Ambrosio on Ohio's death row in December 1998, he intended to describe the funeral of the condemned man's mother.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE:'Story of discovery' shows priest's experience in spiritual counseling

Anne, a divorced 40-year-old woman who essentially remains Catholic in name only, arrives almost by happenstance one evening at the Trappist Abbey of Sts. Philip and James in "The Abbey," Jesuit Father James Martin's recently published first novel.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Two priests, nun bring mission of mercy to Philly neighborhood

PHILADELPHIA -- "Two Irishmen and a nun entered a bar..." What's the punchline?

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Saints and Spies: Pope Pius XII's secret war against Hitler

ROME -- Pope Pius XII, who some critics say remained silent during the Holocaust, played a pivotal role in coordinating covert spy operations and efforts to take down Adolf Hitler, a U.S. author said.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Artist's religious, spiritual paintings have inspired people for decades

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona Artist Ted DeGrazia left behind a huge body of work, with religious and spiritual paintings that have been inspiring people for decades. Yet he was not a churchgoing man and thought he was not holy enough to paint for the church.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Extension features 'nuns who rock' on website, in social media

CHICAGO -- Dominican Sister Gabriella Williams in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, gives her heart and soul to her ministry with migrant field workers, hourly laborers and their families living in trailer parks in California's Coachella Valley.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Photographer's life work to expose horrors of global human trafficking

DE PERE, Wis.  -- Lisa Kristine was 11 when her aunt and uncle gave her an Olympus 35 mm camera. From a converted darkroom in her home in California, she developed black-and-white film and printed images of family and friends.

SUBCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Search for Irish roots adds depth to author's Catholic identity

TORONTO -- Given Irish history and the people's struggles with the great famine, British absentee landlord oppression, and the 19th-century migrations to North America, there is virtual storehouse of material for historical fiction, especially for a writer with an Irish-Catholic sensibility.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: How to 'green' parishes focus of archdiocese's 'Laudato Si' initiative

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the final chapter of his 2015 encyclical letter, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis said "individual conversion" and "community networks" will ultimately motivate Christians to develop the new convictions, choices and habits necessary to authentically care for God's creation.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Ministering to veterans 'about reconciliation and healing,' says deacon

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- As a lieutenant colonel in the Tennessee Army National Guard, Deacon John Krenson was responsible for the well-being of his soldiers in many tense situations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Muslim restorers feel history in work on mosaics above Jesus' burial site

JERUSALEM -- It's quiet and dark in the cavernous gallery above Jesus' burial place in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Franciscan sister says there was 'no limit' to Joe Garagiola's generosity

PHOENIX -- Baseball legend and popular sports broadcaster Joe Garagiola, who died March 23 at age 90, recounted in a Catholic News Service interview 20 years ago how St. Peter Mission School in the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix claimed his heart.

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Book linking religion, economy merits serious discussion

According to Scott W. Gustafson in his book "At the Altar of Wall Street," money not only makes the world go round but it also is the foundation of all religions, and is itself a religion.


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