Answering perhaps the most significant question of the early 2020 election season, former Vice President Joe Biden will launch his presidential campaign on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka president asks for resignations of top security officials
Sri Lanka’s president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and national police chief, a dramatic internal shake-up after security forces shrugged off intelligence reports warning of possible attacks before Easter bombings that killed over 350 people, the president’s office said Wednesday.
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Boy Scouts could be hit with more sex abuse claims
An esteemed American institution, the Boy Scouts, is now another entity rocked by charges of child sexual abuse. Serving more than 2.2 million youths, the Boy Scouts will likely be facing untold lawsuits and legal action.
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Before Australian elections, bishops call for help for most vulnerable
The government that leads Australia following May elections needs to increase support for vulnerable families and indigenous Australians, provide jobs for all and aid refugees, the bishops’ social services commission said.
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Wheeling Jesuit University to end Jesuit affiliation
Wheeling Jesuit University will end its Jesuit affiliation at the end of the current academic year.
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Big changes to the Vatican’s Roman Curia are coming
The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church’s missionary mandate with the creation of a “super-dicastery” merging two offices dedicated to evangelization.
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Explainer: Who are Sri Lanka’s Christians?
Sri Lanka’s Christians have a long history that reflects the dynamics of colonialism as well as present-day ethnic and religious tensions.
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Humanitarian leaders visit Central American nations facing cutoff of U.S. aid
A delegation that includes the head of Catholic Charities of the New York Archdiocese, union leaders, state officials and representatives of humanitarian aid agencies are visiting the three Central American nations that now face a cutoff of U.S. aid ordered by President Donald Trump.
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Solitary Confinement in U.S. prisons qualifies today as torture
It brings into sharp focus that, while the methods have changed over the past 2,000 years, torture remains part of prison life.
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U.S.C.C.B. president decries terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops termed as “a great evil” the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka targeting the country’s minority Christian community as worshippers packed three churches.