“As with every administration, there will be areas where we agree and work closely together and areas where we will have principled disagreement and strong opposition,” Archbishop Gomez said.

During Lent, we mirror the mercy of God when we forgive others.

Whenever dioceses choose to lift dispensations, like with other difficult pandemic-related decisions, individual believers will have to decide for themselves when they feel safe going back to church.

Once you allow a notion of yours, however right and righteous, to separate you from the community, you have become the victim of sin. You are not its solution.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced Pope Francis to cancel his annual celebration of infant baptisms on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

I don’t want my daughter to wonder whether she is half-Catholic and half-Jewish. I want her to feel complete.