One year after Annunciation Catholic school shooting, Archbishop Hebda calls on faithful to be ‘beacons of light’
Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is encouraging community members to be “beacons of light” ahead of the one-year mark of a fatal shooting during an all-school Mass.
A new tax credit helps kids at Catholic and public schools. Why aren’t more states using it?
For years, political leaders across the ideological spectrum have said that education policy should be “all about the kids.” A new tax credit gives them an opportunity to show it.
The eternal warmth of Nana’s kitchen
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, by Molly Cahill
The holiness of Dolly Parton
I think we saw in Dolly Parton something more than talent, something more than wit or charity. We saw holiness.
Jerusalem court acquits a man indicted in nun attack, orders psychiatric care
The violent assault in April on a nun walking in her habit in Jerusalem’s Old City sent shock waves across Israel and its many Christian communities.
How Christ learned compassion
What can God in his wholeness, his blessedness, his tranquility, know of our wounds?
Archbishop urges Trump to ‘rethink’ Haiti deportations after mass kidnapping, massacre
A deadly gang attack near Haiti’s capital on Aug. 23 left more than 47 dead, with at least 50 kidnapped.
What’s wrong with the right-wing ‘heritage American’ story
Many arguments against migration suggest that only certain groups of people (the “blood”) are suitable to live on this land (the “soil”) and that only those belonging to those groups are true Americans. This is intellectually refined Trumpism—it is also immoral and un-American.
An AP reporter spends the night locked inside Jerusalem’s holiest church with clergy and pilgrims
Most nights, from 9 p.m. to dawn, about a dozen priests, a smattering of registered pilgrims and a few cats have the sprawling, dark basilica of the Holy Sepulcher to themselves.
Pope Leo explains why Vatican II needed to reform the Catholic Mass
The liturgy is “a living entity,” and it has always been subject to developments and changes over the centuries, Pope Leo said.
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