AMSTERDAM (CNS) -- An initiative to identify and properly treat children living with HIV has gained new momentum as international organizations and pharmaceutical companies respond to a Vatican push to look past profit to doing the right thing.
Few children...
Catholics believe that Jesus is really present within the church in its status as the people of God -- as stated in the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ("Lumen Gentium") -- but more particularly within the...
Corpus Christi. Body and blood. Real presence.
When I was growing up and attending Lutheran Sunday school (until age 9), these terms were very unfamiliar to me, as I suspect they would be to most non-Catholic children. In my Sunday...
There are occasions in the mad rush of life when responsible, caring people go considerably out of their way to make themselves present to a spouse or a child, a parent, friend or even stranger.
A father or mother hurriedly...
We, in making ourselves present to others, signal our belief in them and our hopes for them.
But do Christ's reasons for wanting to be present to us resemble our reasons for wanting to be present to others?
If grace builds...
WASHINGTON -- The Archbishop of Boston said in an Aug. 10 statement that he has asked the rector of its main archdiocesan St. John Seminary to go on sabbatical leave immediately and is asking for an investigation of allegations...
WASHINGTON -- Human dignity: It hasn't quite become a campaign issue, but it's coming close.
Former Vice President Joe Biden started it. Speaking July 21 in Phoenix to the League of United Latin Citizens about the Trump administration's immigration policies,...
BALTIMORE -- A little more than two decades after they met at an ice cream social on the second day of class at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, Ryan and Elizabeth Young head the Knights of Columbus International...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Aug. 9 ordered Aug. 9 the immediate return to the U.S. of two Salvadoran asylum seekers, a mother and her daughter, who were unexpectedly deported from Texas to their native country.
The ruling came as...
The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It's horrible enough that former seminarians allege he invited them to a beach house with the certainty that he was always...