Francis gives priority to situations of conflict, poverty or natural disaster

More than two dozen undocumented students at Catholic colleges sent a letter on Feb. 5 to 79 members of Congress who graduated from Catholic schools, urging them not to cut off funding for the president’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. • Church leaders criticized the arre

Institute for the United States Senate will provide much-needed lesson in civic education.

Ever-thinner women and toned men are held up in the media to devastating effect.

Rooster, rooster,golden coxcombwait not for the sun to rise.Crow for Peterthrough the darkness,pity him who thrice denied. Rooster, rooster,Peter’s broken.Darkness shrouds all earthly scapes.Time to crow, foreven Petermay just yet be saved by shame.

‘The accountability of bishops is a source of great concern” to the 17 members of the Commission for the Protection of Minors, said Cardinal Seán O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., leader of the Archdiocese of Boston and the president of the body, at a Vatican press briefing on Feb. 7.Marie Co

Catholic Church may benefit from breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations.

A Catholic PragmatistRe Of Many Things, by Matt Malone, S.J. (2/2): Given Father Malone’s political training before joining the Society of Jesus, I’m surprised by his traditional Catholic interpretation of Mr. Cuomo’s two famous speeches. Mr. Cuomo was the ultimate pragma

A recent International Monetary Fund initiative should ease the economic emergency in West African states most affected by the Ebola epidemic, but it will also serve as a template for responding to similar crises in the future, said Eric LeCompte, executive director of the Washington-based Jubilee U

Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador will be beatified in San Salvador “certainly within the year and not later, but possibly within a few months,” said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator, or chief promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood cause. Speaking to reporters on Feb

The challenge to find new ways for women to be “full participants in the various areas of social and ecclesial life…can no longer be postponed,” said Pope Francis, speaking on Feb. 7 with members of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The pope said a “more widespread and inc

St. Francis of Assisi visits New York

A Lenten reflection on the collective sins of racism, violence and environmental destruction.

When I first returned to Baltimore in 2005, after working for nearly 10 years in the Holy Land, I spent some time just driving around the city to get reacquainted with it. I was immediately struck by the number of men, mostly young African-Americans, congregating on street corners or porch stoops in

Canonization does not mean the church is declaring that a person was perfect.

Assisted suicide is legal in only four states currently, but several other jurisdictions are considering legislation on the practice. A California bill resembles the Oregon law approved by voters there in 1994, but it has some significant differences. The California proposal does not include a consc

The vote to raise the minimum wage and minimum compensation (wages, plus tips and employer’s contribution to health insurance) by Seattle’s city council is the most aggressive in a series of efforts to increase pay for traditionally low-wage workers. Congress shows no interest in changin

What would Uber and Airbnb look like if they were designed by the poor and marginalized?

Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado 65 is bishop of the diocese of Santiago in the Republic of Cape Verde a horseshoe archipelago of ten volcanic islands some 350 miles off the coast of northwest Africa Santiago is one of the Republic rsquo s two dioceses both of which Bishop Furtado has led in his 10

Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli nbsp 75 hails from the archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo a Central Italian land of rolling hills vineyards and sandy beaches on the Adriatic Sea Ancona is a main port on the Adriatic particularly for passenger vessels and the economic center of the region nbsp A pries