Texas bishops urge Biden to end impasse over health care funding for poor

The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops has asked President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to end a stalemate between state officials and the federal agency overseeing Medicaid payments that is threatening health care for low-income Texans. Addressing what they described as “an urgent issue,” the prelates Dec. 3 sent the […]

Look at the faces of migrants; help them, pope says

ROME — The best way to overcome indifference to the suffering of migrants and refugees is to look in their faces, Pope Francis said. “In Cyprus, as in Lesbos, (Greece), I was able to look into the eyes of this suffering. Please, let us look into the eyes of the discarded people we meet, let […]

Switzerland’s Catholic Church approves independent abuse study

The flag of Switzerland. / Eberhard Grossgasteiger. Zurich, Dec 8, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church in Switzerland has announced that it is commissioning an independent study of abuse. A research team of historians from the University of Zurich will investigate sexual violence, abuse, and cover-ups in the Swiss Church since the mid-20th […]

The Immaculate Conception and Eastern Orthodoxy

On Dec 8, 1854, to the great rejoicing of the Holy Catholic Church, His Holiness Pope Bl. Pius IX proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. In Ineffabilis Deus, the Supreme Pontiff taught, This sublime and singular privilege of the Blessed Virgin, together with her most excellent innocence, purity, holiness and freedom from every stain of sin, as […]