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“The Mass itself is a reminder that you don’t just have mariachis you tip at tableside in a cantina,” said Alberto Ranjel. “It is a representation of my culture.”
A Catholic pastor receives the first of the two Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations
Priests navigate Catholics' fears and hesitancies in vaccine exemption requests to balance love for neighbor and self with individual conscience.
Cardinal Burke speaking in April 2015 at a university podium.
The cardinal was to return to a regular hospital room Saturday at an undisclosed location, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse said in a statement.
The rising nationwide spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is leading church leaders to strongly encourage—or even require—Massgoers to use facial coverings while attending indoor Masses.
For me and my family, Afghanistan is not one more distant problem we really can’t do anything about. It isn’t the same when the anxiety, and even terror, is experienced by your friends.
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling speaks at the unveiling of a new Black Lives Matter sign at Asbury United Methodist Church, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington.
Bishop LaTrelle Easterling responds after former campus minister and university chaplain at American University surrendered his clergy credentials and admitted to clergy sexual misconduct.
A cross in silhouette against the sunset in a field with birds flying in the distance.

‘Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will surely not lose his reward.’ (Mk 9:41)

‘If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.’ (Mk 9:35)

Is 50:5-9; Ps 116; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35

Dante and Virgil at the gates of purgatory, and the Proud carrying heavy stones, in an illustration of Canto IX of Dante’s "Purgatorio" (photo : CNS photo/Priamo della Quercia, British Library via The Public Domain Review)
What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?