CHICAGO — When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma brought his Concert for Peace to St. Sabina Church for the second time June 10, there was a special feature — five original works written with family members who lost loved ones...
VATICAN CITY — Exploiting women or treating them like objects is a sin against God, Pope Francis said.
“There is a rage against women, terrible rage,” the pope said in his homily June 15 during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The U.S. bishops June 13 decried U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision that asylum seekers fleeing domestic or gang violence cannot find protection in the United States.
“At its core, asylum is an instrument to preserve...
WASHINGTON — One week before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shook hands at the historic summit on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, 100 Catholics representing different perspectives huddled at Georgetown University in Washington.
They were there to...
Three adult children of a recently deceased woman were sitting with me planning the funeral. As we looked at options for the Gospel reading for the Mass, one daughter suggested the first option, the beatitudes in Chapter 5 of...
In his newest apostolic exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), Pope Francis offers a road map for simple ways that everyday people can be holy. While few of us are in a position where we risk dying...
Christ's incarnation troubles some Christians. It almost always did.
Today, as in past centuries, some find it difficult to accept the Incarnation fully. They doubt, perhaps, that God really could or would become man.
Perhaps, too, they wonder why on earth...
Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate,"
starkly challenges today's Christians to take the dignity of all human life seriously, viewing it in light of Christ's incarnation.
The pope offers a road map for simple ways that everyday people can...
VATICAN CITY — How is it that God in heaven can hear the cries of the poor, but so many people watching or standing nearby either cannot or just do not care, Pope Francis asked.
People must make “a serious...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Changes in language to clarify several sections of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” were approved during the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The changes are the...