Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski remembered the former leader of Cuba and prayed for peace.
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The Catholic Church in Lithuania is anxious over Putin’s advances
Support from Europe and the United States has helped calm some fears related to neighboring Russia, said Archbishop Gintaras Grusas.
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Native American spirituality is sustaining the anti-pipeline protest
The Lakota prayer over water has become a rallying cry in the mass action to prevent the construction of a crude oil pipeline near their reservation.
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Pope Francis to scientists: You must find solutions to climate change
The pope said there was a “weak response” in most international policies to promoting the common good.
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Logging thousands of miles, one Chaldean priest visits Iraqi refugees in Turkey
Being the only Chaldean Catholic priest in charge of pastoral work in Turkey, Father Adday is a road warrior who logs thousands of miles meeting Iraqi Christian refugees in Turkey.
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Pope Francis: Discernment is the key to navigating a seemingly rigid world
“A rigidity that is far from a discernment of situations has been introduced” in seminaries, Pope Francis said. He also called clericalism “one of the most serious illnesses that the church has.”
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Celebration, sorrow mingle after death of Fidel Castro
Within half an hour of the Cuban government’s announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami’s Little Havana.
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, dies at 90
Castro’s reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Human dignity, the common good, and solidarity are ‘more than mere words,’ bishops say
The dignity of human life, the common good and solidarity are “more than mere words and phrases,” said the Catholic bishops of Washington state in a joint pastoral letter
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Upcoming U.N. talks to abolish nuclear weapons face uncertain future
The United Nations is preparing to embark on talks to ban nuclear weapons.Negotiations are set to begin in March and are expected to take an indefinite time to complete.The end result is uncertain, but the 123 nations that voted on Oct. 27 for a resolution within the U.N. General Assembly committee