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A chaplain prays with a nurse in a scene from the documentary “Your Health: A Sacred Matter,” which airs on several PBS stations Friday and Saturday July 7 and 8. Photo courtesy of Auteur Productions
FaithNews
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
Researchers from Vanderbilt University found that middle-aged adults who attended religious services at least once in the past year were half as likely to die prematurely as those who didn’t.
Reformed, Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist leaders look on in St. Mary's City Church in Wittenberg, Germany, as the Rev. Chris Ferguson, World Communion of Reformed Churches general secretary, signs the declaration expressing Reformed churches' support for the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. Photo courtesy of WCRC/Anna Siggelkow
FaithNews
Tom Heneghan - Religion News Service
The World Communion of Reformed Churches signed a declaration this week endorsing the 1999 Catholic-Lutheran agreement on how Christians might be worthy of salvation in the eyes of God.
Pope Francis is accompanied by Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan as he greets the crowd outside the cathedral in Milan March 25. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
Those who know Bishop Delpini well describe him as “a very spiritual man, humble but not submissive, a great worker, far from the profile of a manager-bishop, very attentive to the personal relationship with priests.”
Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who spent 22 years as director of the Vatican press office, died on July 5 at age 80. He is pictured speaking in 2004 alongside a projected image of St. John Paul II. (CNS photo/Arne Dedert, EPA)
FaithNews
Catholic News Service
"Joaquin Navarro embodied what Ernest Hemingway defined as courage: grace under pressure."
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Love cannot be violent, cannot force itself; love must endure injury with patience and without resentment.
Alicia von Stamwitz at age 6 (Photo courtesy of the author)
FaithFaith in Focus
Alicia von Stamwitz
I want to believe things are better now for immigrants, but I fear things are getting worse.