“For many years if anyone from General Electric would see Sister Pat on the streets of New York they would cross the street to avoid her,” the GE executive recalled. “Today, I knew she was going to be here and I looked for her at breakfast.”
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Trump will reverse Obamacare’s birth control mandate
The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obamacare’s requirement that most employers provide free coverage of birth control to their employees.
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Now you can explore the artwork of the world’s oldest Christian cemetery
The Catacombs of St. Domitilla are believed to be the world’s oldest existing Christian cemetery and are among the largest in Italy with a total of some 150,000 burial spots.
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Pope Francis will not visit South Sudan in 2017
With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, Pope Francis already in March had expressed doubts about the possibility of making the trip.
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Why these cloistered nuns are taking to Facebook
The 10 nuns who live behind the high walls of the convent in Oristano are breaking their silence and turning their back on tradition.
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Once a Christian militant in Lebanon’s civil war, now he builds peace where he fought
Assaad Chaftari, who once fought in the name of his Christian faith, is now working for peace alongside those who would have once been his enemies in the Lebanese civil war.
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El Salvadoran Jesuits seek freedom for military leader implicated in 1989 killings
The Jesuits believe Benavides is a “scapegoat” for those who ordered the 1989 UCA massacre and were never punished. The Jesuits consider the case against the killers closed but continue to seek clarity on the intellectual authors of the crime.
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‘Capitalism gives a moral cloak to inequality,’ Pope Francis says at Italian steel plant
Condemning an economy that encourages speculation more than entrepreneurship, warning priests and religious that they share responsibility for the vocations crisis and telling young people they are right to be puzzled by nations that close their doors to people fleeing persecution, Pope Francis spent a busy day in Genoa. Besides being packed with pastoral appointments, […]
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How Pope Francis is healing the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship
While some Pentecostals in some parts of the world, especially in Latin America, have a reputation for trying to convince Catholics to leave the church, the reality of the Catholic-Pentecostal relationship is much more varied.
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Catholic priest says he and 200 others held hostage in Philippines
A Catholic priest who was taken hostage by militants linked to the Islamic State group says he’s being held alongside 200 other captives, including children.