To promote dialogue and reconciliation, the pope will have to move with great prudence.
Faith
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
In World Day of Peace message, Pope Francis decries discrimination toward migrants and refugees
Although he named no countries, Vatican observers believe he is referring especially to political leaders in several western and eastern European countries.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Will you be taking part in #GivingTuesday? The founder tells us how it began
This week’s guest is Henry Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y and the founder of Giving Tuesday. “We started Giving Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday,” explains Mr. Timms, “to go from a national conversation about consumption to a national conversation about compassion.” Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable-giving season and asks […]
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Sister Antona Ebo’s lifelong struggle against white supremacy, inside and outside the Catholic Church
On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis will meet with military commander in Myanmar
Gen. Min Aung Hlaing wields great political power in the country.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
New York switches to a ‘pilot program’ during annual C.C.H.D. collection. Did parishioners notice?
The change was in “no way” a response to the C.C.H.D.’s persistent online critics, an archdiocesan official says.
Posted inFaith, Ideas
The secular world has turned Thanksgiving into madness.
We hear so much about how stringent the church is, how unreasonable in her strictures, how strict in her unreasonableness. But there is no institution so unforgiving as the secular world at this, the most wonderful time of the year.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Thanksgiving Prayer for Nearly Everyone
‘Now, I know I’m not the most grateful person you know, God, so let me take some time to tell you what I’m thankful for.’
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Getting older isn’t for the weak
The future demands faith. Either we summon it and nurture it, or fear will rule our final days.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Will Pope Francis remove the Vatican’s ‘warning’ from Teilhard de Chardin’s writings?
Participants at the recent plenary assembly approved a petition requesting the pope to waive the “monitum” issued by the Holy Office in 1962.