Do schools have to notify parents if their child identifies as trans? The courts are weighing in.
Policies governing transgender students have become controversial of late.
What I learned from listening to non-practicing Catholics ahead of the Synod
Since this synod was announced in 2021, I have worked with the Seattle chancery as a synod volunteer and responded to the call for dialogue by personally talking with 100 people who were baptized and are now non-practicing.
Pope Francis writing a second environmental document after Laudato Si’
Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato Si’. The pope said with this new writing he is updating Laudato Si’ to cover current issues. The Holy See Press Office Director, Matteo Bruni, confirmed to CNA Aug. 21 that “the pope is working on […]
Church, society urged to address suicide risk factors with education, resources
(OSV News) — Suicide, it is sometimes said, is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But for at least 49,449 Americans during 2022, feelings of distress were so acute they took their own lives. As CNN recently reported with the release of provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the suicide […]
The Powerful Role of Mary, Queen of Heaven & Earth: 6 Enlightening Quotes From Pope Pius XII’s “Ad Caeli Reginam”
The Catholic Church celebrates the Queenship of Mary on Aug. 22nd. Pope Pius XII established the feast of the Queenship of Mary in his encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam on Oct. 11, 1954. However, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration in 1969 to emphasize the relationship between the Assumption and the Queenship of Mary. Ad Caeli […]
Pope Francis Writing a Second Environmental Document After ‘Laudato Si,’ Vatican Confirms…
Pope Francis announced during an audience with lawyers Monday that he is writing a second part to his 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato Si’.The pope said with this new writing he is updating Laudato Si’ to cover current issues.The Holy See Press Office Director, Matteo Bruni, confirmed to CNA Aug. 21 that “the pope is working […]
Texas Carmelites ‘no longer recognize authority’ of Fort Worth bishop, warned of excommunication
Mother Teresa Gerlach had been removed by Bishop Michael Olson but now has affirmed that she and the convent no longer recognize his authority, due to the ‘abuse to which he has subjected us.’Read More
Trump indictment in Georgia attempts to criminalize former president’s tweets, phone calls
The charges brought against Donald Trump and more than a dozen others by Fani Willis, a partisan Georgia prosecutor, have been slammed as a desperate effort to throw ‘a bunch of stuff at the wall trying to get something, anything to stick.’Read More
New York orders schools to keep explicit LGBT content in classrooms, let boys into girls’ bathrooms
Schools may not use ‘a pretext of inappropriateness or lewdness to systemically remove diverse perspectives from the classroom,’ according to New York legislation.Read More
More than 120 arrested in Pakistan after mob burned down Christian churches, homes
A Muslim mob burned down churches and vandalized the homes of Christians in Jaranwala, a city in the Punjab province, on August 16 following blasphemy allegations against two Christian men. Read More