Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hundreds of worshipers Friday for the first Muslim prayers in 86 years inside Hagia Sophia.
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Pope Francis thanks pilgrim with disability who walked along Spain’s Camino de Santiago
In a letter published on the website of the Diocese of Malaga, Spain, the pope thanked a teen with an intellectual disability after the 15-year-old traveled more than 60 miles along the famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
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U.S. bishops: Trump’s census memo on undocumented immigrants is ‘wrong and divisive’
“Counting the undocumented in the census and then denying them and the states in which they reside their rightful representation in Congress is counter to the Constitution and a grave injustice,” the statement said.
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Canadian court: Safe Third Country Agreement with U.S. violates rights
A federal judge in Canada has struck down the Safe Third Country Agreement, which sends refugees arriving at the border back to detention in the United States, on the grounds that it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedom.
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Felician sisters bear loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19: ‘Our most tragic time’
The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice in Livonia, Michigan are coping with the loss of 13 sisters to COVID-19 since April.
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New sex abuse accusation surfaces against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick
The suit alleges that at age 11, the boy began to be sexually abused in 1978 by a priest at a New Jersey parish and the abuse continued at the hands of another cleric at the Catholic high school he attended, and then with McCarrick in 1982.
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Ethicist alarmed over how treatment decisions were made for quadriplegic
The hospice death of Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old quadriplegic, pricked the conscience of Fordham ethics professor Charlie Camosy.
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Vatican denies involvement in decision to exhume Francisco Franco, former Spanish dictator
The Vatican released a statement denying involvement in the Spanish government’s decision to exhume the remains of the country’s late dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
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Dante is remembered most for his depiction of hell. This sculptor wants us to remember heaven, too.
“In our culture Dante is becoming lost.”
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Statue of Jesus beheaded in Florida among latest attacks on Catholic churches
The beheading of a statue of Christ at a Catholic church in the Miami Archdiocese has saddened the parish community and prompted the archbishop to call for investigation of the incident as a hate crime.