The Nuba Mountains region in southern Sudan is a land the world has largely forgotten, except for the Catholic Church, which for more than three decades has stood with the people as they endured hunger, bombing and neglect.
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Food for Poor appeals attorney general‘s order on donation percentages
Attorney General Xavier Becerra has ordered Food for the Poor to “cease and desist” from using a statement about the percentage of donations that go to direct aid. Becerra has called the statement “unfair and deceptive.”
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Pope tells young Jesuits to be courageous, prayerful, creative
The pope met Aug. 1 with about two dozen European Jesuits currently involved in the order’s formation process. They had been talking about communication and one asked Pope Francis how they can meaningfully communicate with unemployed young people when, as Jesuits, they will never know what it means to be without a job.
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Canadian ecumenical document embraces Christian concern for environment
The declaration is contained in “The Hope Within Us,” a document released July 23 from the Roman Catholic-United Church of Canada Dialogue in Canada.
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Cardinal DiNardo: Church must address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’
The accusations against Archbishop McCarrick, a former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington, “reveal a grievous moral failure within the church,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.
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Cardinal Wuerl: Next steps in wake of Archbishop McCarrick allegations
The Catholic Standard published a question-and-answer interview July 31 with Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl about the next steps for the archdiocese in light of the sexual abuse allegations made against Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington.
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Bishop: U.K. Supreme Court ruling on withdrawing hydration morally wrong
Britain’s highest court has ruled that doctors can withdraw food and fluid from patients who are in a vegetative state or minimally conscious without seeking permission from judges.
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New coalition seeks sainthood for five African-Americans
Although the Catholic Church has many saints of African descent, it has no black American saints.
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Idolatry of wealth and beauty demands a costly sacrifice, pope says
Although wealth, fame, beauty and power differ from the idols of ancient times, they all require “a human sacrifice,” the pope said Aug. 1 during his weekly general audience.
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Argentine doctors protest legal abortion ahead of key vote
Hundreds of physicians have staged anti-abortion protests as an abortion rights bill moves toward a vote in the Senate next week.