Puerto Ricans decry SCOTUS decision denying them Social Security benefits
NEW YORK – Father Enrique Camacho’s grandmother died Feb. 2 after long battles with dementia and metastatic cancer. She didn’t get Social Security Income (SSI) benefits and the family couldn’t afford 24-hour home nurses, so Camcho’s aunt quit her job and, for the last two years, slept in the hallway adjacent to the grandmother’s room […]
Expert says too many laity ignore abuse crisis because ‘it doesn’t affect them’
ROME – When it comes to addressing the clerical sexual abuse, the role of the laity is central, according to experts. However, according to one of the Colombian lay women at the center of the country’s bishops’ response, too many people avoid addressing it, because they don’t think it is a problem that affects them. […]
Brazilian Church backs Indigenous groups in fight against mining interests
SÃO PAULO – As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s allies in Congress try to pass a bill to allow mining operations in Indigenous territories, native activists and church organizations are claiming it would adversely impact the environment and human rights in the South American country. Last week, more than 7,000 members of Indigenous groups from all […]
Guglielmo Marconi: Making history in Ireland
As Vatican Radio and the rest of the world mark the 31st International Marconi Day this 23 April, we take a look at the inventor’s connection to Ireland and at a historic event that took place 120 years ago at Malin Head in the north of the country. Read all
PASCHALCAzT 2022 – 53: Easter Saturday – Clothed!
Daily 5 minute podcast to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord. STATION: St. John Lateran TODAY: A wistful musing on what is lost even when something else is gained. Fr. Troadec… yeah. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · PASCHALCAzT 2022 – 53: … Read More →
Day 113: Broken Trust (2022)
In today’s readings, we learn how Doeg the Edomite betrayed David, the priests, and the Lord. Fr. Mike explains that betrayal is painful because our hearts are deeply wounded when trust is broken. Today we read 1 Samuel 21-22 and Psalm 52. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult […]
St. George (Martyr)
The martyr St. George is well known because of the many popular legends about him; the historical facts about his life, however, are less well known and much more prosaic than the myths suggest. George lived in the third or fourth century, and was probably martyred about 303 in the Palestinian city of Lydda. It […]
Cardinal Pell: Pope ‘will to have to speak’ against dissident German Synod
The papacy will have to intervene ‘to clarify and reiterate the Tradition’ amid widespread heresy and dissidence in the German Church, the Australian prelate said.
Cardinal Pell: Pope ‘will to have to speak’ against dissident German Synod
The papacy will have to intervene ‘to clarify and reiterate the Tradition’ amid widespread heresy and dissidence in the German Church, the Australian prelate said.
The blueprint of mercy: preparation, proclamation, perseverance, purpose
Readings: • Acts 5:12-16 • Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 • Rev 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 • Jn 20:19-31 It is fitting that on this second Sunday of Easter, decreed in 2000 by Pope John Paul II […]