In a letter to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, the head of the Congregation for Catholic Education called for an alliance between secular and Catholic educational institutions to confront the challenges caused by the pandemic.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio: "Catholics in the Navy and everywhere in this country rejoice in the decision by the U.S. Navy to reconsider closing the thriving Catholic programs at naval stations in California."
In Bogota, Columbia, a priest who was unable to celebrate Mass in his parish accepted a company's invitation to conduct "a drive-in Mass" at an old racetrack.
Archishop Paul S. Coakley, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Domestic Justice and Development, is urging the Congress and the White House to come to an agreement on a COVID relief program.
Pope Francis: “A virus that does not recognize barriers, borders or cultural or political distinctions must be faced with a love without barriers, borders or distinctions.”
While deaths at the hands of police make headlines, the problem of implicit bias in policing and security for most Black Americans is experienced as a daily psychic burden.
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle unpacks Francis’ central ideas of community, the universal destination of goods and care for the environment.
It is in plain view that many of our fellow citizens are so frustrated with our political system that they have fallen for populist rhetoric to condemn all “politicians” or government itself as evil.
Gossip is “a plague worse than COVID,” Pope Francis said, asserting that while speaking ill of others comes almost naturally, it is a tool of the devil to divide the church.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has put the brakes on most foreign travel and many in-person meetings, Pope Francis still has some major events on his fall 2020 agenda.