CHICAGO -- Ending the widespread stay-at-home orders under the coronavirus pandemic would align with Catholic social teaching and respond to the needs of vulnerable people, including the young and the poor, two Catholic economists said.
Government regulations generally are developed...
CHICAGO -- In 2018, Alessandro DiSanto quit a promising job in finance to join friends in starting an app for Catholics centered around meditation and prayer.
That app, Hallow, is now the top Catholic app in app stores, has 150,000...
ROME -- As Italian authorities prepare to slowly relax lockdown restrictions in the country, a Vatican City official said it will enact new measures and protocols to ensure the safety of visitors to the Vatican Museums.
In an interview with...
BRANDYWINE HUNDRED — St. Edmond’s Academy did not let the coronavirus pandemic get in the way of an annual tradition. The all-boys school honored its mothers by distributing flowers to them on May 10, which was Mothers Day.
Nearly 100...
CHICAGO -- When word came that Illinois residents were being asked to stay home and the Archdiocese of Chicago suspended public Masses in mid-March, Chicago-based iconographer Joseph Malham was at loose ends, like so many others.
He decided to use...
By the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
As we continue to experience the realities of COVID-19, we pray for all those infected by the virus and their loved ones. While we self-quarantine to avoid encountering the virus, health care...
VATICAN CITY -- As countries continue to reel from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis offered prayers for the men and women who have been unable to work.
"In these days, many people have lost their jobs,...
Do I remember St. John Paul II? Yes, I remember him well.
I write of him as the centennial of his birth May 18, 1920, approaches. It would be impossible to list all my lasting memories of him in one...
Moments after my daughter was born, I began to lose consciousness. As I held my child, the nurses lowered the bed to help me feel less dizzy and bring up my blood pressure. But my doctor didn't realize they...
One of my assignments as a theology graduate assistant was to deliver a 90-minute lecture on St. John Paul II's 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"). The task was daunting: Not only was I to unpack more...