Pastoralidad is not a normal word in Spanish any more than pastorality is in English. Yet as soon as you hear it, you know what it means, or at least you think you do.
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Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Republicans accuse Catholic Charities of breaking the law in its border response
Catholic Charities USA officials pushed back strongly against allegations from Republican House of Representatives members that its humanitarian responses to the U.S. border crisis were potentially criminal acts.
Posted inFaith, News
Sister Pat Daly, whose ministry held corporations accountable to their customers and the planet, dies at 67
Sister Daly spent parts of five decades as a religious in corporate accountability and shareholder advocacy.
Posted inFaith, News
Chicago’s Michael Pfleger cleared by church officials of abuse claim
A prominent Roman Catholic priest known for his activism has been reinstated as leader of his Chicago parish after being cleared by church officials of allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades ago.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The powerful, prayerful experience of being a remote parishioner
Some people might wonder how I felt so connected to others from afar, but there are many ways that I connected with my parish, and I really felt like I belonged.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Dorothy Day’s obituary from 1980: ‘All Was Grace’
After Dorothy Day’s death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that “the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
New USCCB president: Bishops suffer from damaged unity. But the Gospel shows how to resolve our disagreements.
“I am not suggesting that we ignore disagreement, but that we handle it in an evangelical fashion, ” Archbishop Timothy Broglio writes.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholics: Your diocesan newspaper is worth saving.
Diocesan newspapers in New York and Portland, Ore., are shutting down this year. With fewer Catholic print publications in the United States, who will tell the story of the local church?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is the Biden administration ready to respond to a Haitian immigration emergency?
People who hope to escape Haiti’s cholera outbreak and life-threatening insecurity cannot wait for a more welcome climate to emerge in the United States.
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‘I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since’: Priest who buried 8 children reflects on 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting
Reflecting on the horror and the events of the intervening years, Msgr. Weiss said: “Gratitude sustains me. I pray a lot and try to keep myself in the Lord’s hands.”