"Redemptor Hominis" ("The Redeemer of Man," 1979), the first of 14 encyclical letters issued by St. John Paul II (1978–2005), lays out the vision and agenda that would guide his papacy over the next quarter of a century.
That agenda...
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
For a few weeks during the Christmas season, items that I had ordered online were either ransacked or stolen. I’d come home to find my packages shredded and some, if not all, of their contents removed....
VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church needs "new legal structures of accountability" for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse allegations, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago told the Vatican summit on safeguarding.
Addressing Pope Francis...
By Christopher Gunty
CatholicReview.org
ANNAPOLIS – When Laura Wallen went missing in early September 2017, she was 14 weeks pregnant with a boy she had named Reid. Mark Wallen, her father, said the family was “drowning in grief” as they searched...
DERBY LINE, Vt. — On Pio, on Kateri, on Michael and Nicholas!
Musher Nathan Gratton could have called out the saint names of some of his dogs as they pulled him and the blanket-covered riders in his sled over the...
VATICAN CITY — The abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is a call for bishops to unmask the deep-seated clericalism that placed protection of the institution of the church above the sufferings of victims, said the head of the...
NEW CASTLE – When Marnie Giunta was growing up in the Pittsburgh area, being a high school coach was not her career ambition. She had bigger goals — president, big house, lots of money.
After she graduated from the University...
Frank Vavala joined the Delaware National Guard in 1965, two years after his graduation from Salesianum School, and over the next half century, his rank rose, as did the scope of his public service. By the time he retired...
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle C
1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23
Psalm 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13
2) 1 Cor 15:45-49
Gospel: Lk 6:27-38
A biblical superhero
Superheroes never go out of style.
There's something in us, young and old, that enjoys a good superhero tale....
VATICAN CITY -- On the eve of a major summit on the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, survivors said concrete action, not words, must be made to restore the trust of those who have suffered at the hands...