Speaking to NCR, Catholic media professionals — as well as some Catholic bishops and communications officials — lamented the pending loss of Catholic News Service, the U.S. bishops' century-old wire service.
An effort by a Vermont bishop to promote greater care for the Earth and the teachings of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," resulted in a diocesan-wide celebration of a Year of Creation in 2017.
