After the latest report on the abuse of children by clergy and other in the Catholic Church in England and Wales, survivors are tired of promises and expressions of sorrow. They want structural reform.

Congressman Joaquin Castro writes that Arturo S. Rodriguez, former president of the United Farm Workers, would be a champion of social justice as U.S. secretary of agriculture.

"I strongly reaffirm the right of persons with disabilities to receive the sacraments, like all other members of the church. All liturgical celebrations in the parish should be accessible to them."

Pope Francis' remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 2.

The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”

Part of my project aims to show that Catholics responded heroically to H.I.V. and AIDS in the early days. What I didn’t realize in setting out to tell these stories was how raw that time remains for so many people, even decades later.

Cardinal Fitzgerald noted that Francis took inspiration for the encyclical not only from St. Francis of Assisi but also from the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb.

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic of our lifetime. But we’re certainly acting like it is. 

The passionate reaction to Maradona’s death was a sign of his transcendence and quasi-religious appeal.

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