“My neighborhood, my family and I have a right to live without a nuclear gun on hair-trigger alert held perpetually to our heads,” Colville told the judge.
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‘How many of us will be left?’ Felician nuns face loss and pain after Covid outbreaks
Around the Felician world, gripping news trickled out from their convent in Livonia, Michigan, last March, of sisters becoming sick and being hospitalized.
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The Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook has a list for (almost) everything you need to know about the Catholic Church
The countries in the world with the most people baptized Catholics continue to be, in order: Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Italy.
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Belfast bishop urges young people to get off the streets as Catholic-Protestant violence escalates
The Catholic bishop of Belfast urged politicians to be more careful about their language as the city was engulfed in nightly violence.
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London cardinal leads Catholics in mourning death of Prince Philip
“How much we will miss Prince Philip’s presence and character, so full of life and vigor,” said Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster. “He has been an example of steadfast loyalty and duty cheerfully given. May he rest in peace.”
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Vatican Observatory launches podcast and new website
The podcasts are available on several platforms and they feature one of the pope’s own Jesuit astronomers speaking with a notable figure in the world of space exploration or science.
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Bishops remember Hans Küng as a theologian who loved the Catholic Church
German and Swiss bishops who knew and worked with Father Hans Küng described him as a man who loved the Catholic Church, even though the theologian sometimes went beyond the limits of Catholic doctrine and criticized the decisions of church leaders.
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Hans Küng, influential Vatican II theologian censured by John Paul II, dies at 93
Hans Küng was first in flair and media savviness among 20th-century theologians.
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Cardinal: Too many Catholics don’t understand that some church teachings can actually change
Three days after the preacher of the papal household called on Catholics to repent for the ways they are dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and they are harmful.
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Cardinal, at pope’s Good Friday service, decries divisions within church
“Fraternity among Catholics is wounded,” Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa said. “Divisions between churches have torn Christ’s tunic to shreds.”