McAllen, Texas -- More than 2,300 immigrant children have been separated from their parents after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for border crossers. Though family separation practices have been cancelled through executive order, suffering has not.
After years of covering up the sexual abuse of children, a regime of transparency and accountability is firmly enough in place that not even a cardinal can be considered above the law.
Young Voices: Becoming one holy family at Holy Family Parish in Cincinnati is a process. But we — parishioners from both the United States and Guatemala — are getting there, using some formal initiatives and building an intercultural community in small ways every day.
Signs of the Times: It is ironic that the bishops — who think of themselves as teachers — have an easier time reaching agreement on their opposition to, or support of, specific government programs than in agreeing on a teaching document for their people.
Young Voices: Becoming one holy family at Holy Family Parish in Cincinnati is a process. But we — parishioners from both the United States and Guatemala — are getting there, using some formal initiatives and building an intercultural community in small ways every day.
Signs of the Times: It is ironic that the bishops — who think of themselves as teachers — have an easier time reaching agreement on their opposition to, or support of, specific government programs than in agreeing on a teaching document for their people.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, allowing immigrant families to remain together, a pivot after officials spent days defending the administration's zero tolerance policy.
The final panel of Georgetown's "Faith and the Faithful in U.S. Politics" series revealed that Democratic Party leaders and members have very different agendas regarding religion.
After years of covering up the sexual abuse of children, a regime of transparency and accountability is firmly enough in place that not even a cardinal can be considered above the law.
The Field Hospital: The congregation at Our Lady of the Rosary in Detroit has always been small, but parishioners say that attendance at Sunday Mass is about a third of what it used to be. Some say the reason is that the parish is now an oratory and Fr. Daniel Jones pastor.
The Field Hospital: Baltimore Archdiocese reaches out to young adults with wedding change; Laudato Si' in Belleville parishes; a church survives in a Nebraska ghost town.
Many parishioners at St. Monica Church in western Kenya are unhappy after their favorite priest was suspended for misconduct by the Diocese of Homa Bay.
Geneva: Pope Francis has called on the fellowship of 350 Christian denominations known as the World Council of Churches to be more missionary in its approach, warning the ecumenical organization against adopting "worldly ways of thinking" during a one-day visit here for its 70th anniversary.
McAllen, Texas -- More than 2,300 immigrant children have been separated from their parents after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for border crossers. Though...
Young Voices: Becoming one holy family at Holy Family Parish in Cincinnati is a process. But we — parishioners from both the United States and Guatemala — are getting there, using some formal initiatives and building an intercultural community in small ways every day.
No periphery is far enough away to escape a pope's purview. Not even outer space.
From Pope Gregory XIII's observational tower built in the Vatican Gardens in the 16th century so celestial studies could aid the reform of the calendar to Pope Leo XIII, who officially re-founded the Vatican Observatory in the late 19th century, popes have kept their eyes fixed on the heavens.
Dan Misleh of Catholic Climate Covenant calls the declaration "an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Catholic community to step into the void" left by Trump's Paris exit announcement.
After years of covering up the sexual abuse of children, a regime of transparency and accountability is firmly enough in place that not even a cardinal can be considered above the law.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has announced that he is stepping down from active ministry after allegations of sexual abuse were found "credible and substantiated." He is likely the first cardinal to step down from active ministry for sexually abusing a minor.
Book Review: How many contemporary Christians consider Adam and Eve as real persons, the first man and woman created by God, our first parents from whom we have all descended?
Book Review: The author's rich insights on lay spirituality, which are based on solid and prolonged field research, both in the U.S. and abroad, will prove extremely valuable, especially in our days when, under Pope Francis' pontificate, the reforms initiated by Vatican II seem to have another chance.
McAllen, Texas -- More than 2,300 immigrant children have been separated from their parents after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for border crossers. Though...
The Mexican bishops' conference has criticized the practice of U.S. officials separating migrant families, joining a chorus of condemnation south of the border as Mexicans react with outrage to the sight and sounds of children being confined in shelters far from their parents.
At the end of a day dedicated to celebrating 70 years of an ecumenical fellowship forged by the World Council of Churches, Pope Francis turned to the region's Catholics, reminding them of what lies at the heart of the faith.
Scripture for Life: Trusting God's plan and timetable may ask more of us than all the things we might think we should or could do to make God's kingdom come.
When Archbishop Luis Ladaria reaffirmed the ban on women's ordination, he claimed that the 'substance' of the sacrament made it impossible. This claim needs to be exposed for the fallacy it is.
Distinctly Catholic: Why can't EWTN, fortified as it should be, with the clear teaching of the pope, the bishops and the Bible, stand up to Trump on the issue of immigration?
All dictatorships begin the same way: media outlets are put in the hands of "unscrupulous" people who spread lies and weaken democracy, Pope Francis said.
McAllen, Texas -- More than 2,300 immigrant children have been separated from their parents after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for border crossers. Though...
Uganda has quietly absorbed a million South Sudanese refugees in the past few years. While challenges abound, Uganda's liberal policy toward refugees stems from its own recent tumultuous history.
