The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber.
The money comes from an emergency fund established using part of the proceeds the bishops' conference collects each year from citizens' tax designations.
The Archdiocese of New York, in partnership with Somos, an immigrant doctors network, will offer covid-19 testing to underserved communities in New York City.
There is anger, especially at the high number of deaths in the country’s nursing homes, and widespread dismay at the London government’s stumbling attempts at managing the pandemic.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life sponsored an online roundtable of Latino young adults who discussed the topic "Justice and Faith, Family and Community: Latino Leadership in a Time of Crisis."
Black men strung up and lynched by Irish-Americans in New York, in the midst of the Civil War. It turns the stomach to acknowledge, but the truth is unavoidable.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, along with members of the "July 21" charitable association, are bringing needed supplies to marginalized communities living outside of Rome as they grapple with the pandemic.