Pope Francis has sent $50,000 each to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to assist with initial emergency relief efforts.
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Faith and generosity sustain flood victims in Omaha Archdiocese
Through prayer and acts of generosity, Catholics throughout the diocese of Omaha, Neb. are helping their neighbors and families deal with the historic floodwaters that have ravaged the state.
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Catholic social teaching guides advocates in push for a ‘moral’ budget
With divided government, the budget debate from now through the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, and perhaps later, may become contentious as congressional committee hearings shape how tax dollars are spent.
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Cradling children, migrant families cross the border in waves
Waves of desperate families are trying to cross the border almost hourly and entering an overtaxed government detention system.
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Irish bishop criticizes Catholics who spread fear of Muslims
“To define a whole category of people, or a whole nation, or a whole religious group as being in some way more prone to terrorism than any other group is irresponsible.”
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‘Nones’ now as big as evangelicals and Catholics in the U.S.
The percentage of Americans who don’t affiliate with any specific religious tradition is now roughly the same as those who identify as evangelical or Catholic.
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New Zealand bans ‘military-style’ guns after mosque attacks
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced a ban of “military-style” semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines like those used in the shootings at Christchurch mosques last week.
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Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti in Massachusetts
A Jewish cemetery in Fall River, Mass. was vandalized on March 16-17, with headstones defaced with anti-Semitic messages, with numerous headstones pushed to the ground. The Anti-Defamation League of New England is offering a $1,500 award for any information involving the case. This latest incident reveals a disturbing trend in increasing anti-Semitic violence in the state of Massachusetts.
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Historic flooding in Midwest threatening lives, destroying livelihoods
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee late March 19 expressed grief over the lives and livelihoods lost and threatened by the historic flooding in the Midwest and offered prayers for recovery.
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Father Gustavo Gutierrez supports declaring St. Romero ‘doctor of the church’
One of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America said he supports an effort to declare St. Oscar Romero a doctor of the Catholic Church.