Calif. lawsuit attacks school-endorsed parental rights policy (Our Sunday Visitor)
The Chino Valley Unified School District recently adopted a policy that requires school officials to notify parents when their children begin to identify as a member of the opposite sex. Seeking to halt the parental-notification policy, the State of California has filed a lawsuit against the school district.
‘Reclaim the dream of every South African,’ bishops urge (SACBC)
“Our Catholic faith urges us all to work for the common good,” the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference emphasized in a statement for the 30th anniversary of the first post-apartheid democratic election.
Cardinal Parolin previews Pope’s journey to Mongolia (Vatican News)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, discussed the Pope’s apostolic journey to Mongolia in an interview. Cardinal Parolin said that “the fact that the Pope sets out for geographically distant countries and also faces the inconveniences that come with it is precisely to signify his desire to actively witness and concretely promote […]
Ancient Christian enclave faces ‘genocide by starvation,’ Armenian Catholic bishop warns (Our Sunday Visitor)
Bishop Mikael Mouradian of the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg (Glendale, CA) discussed the dire situation of Armenian Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Pope Francis: The ‘senseless war on our common home’ is ‘a terrible world war’ (Vatican Press Office)
In announcing the publication of an upcoming exhortation on care for our common home, Pope Francis said that “it is necessary to stand with the victims of environmental and climate injustice, striving to end the senseless war on our common home, which is a terrible world war. I urge all of you to work and […]
Alarms About the St. Michael Prayer
Just when you thought that the more mainstream Catholic publications were losing their taste for the trivial amid the crisis of faith we are living through, along comes The Priest magazine with a cover story about why the St. Michael the Archangel Prayer is inappropriate to say after Mass. The glossy magazine has on its […]
Progress!
We are not told why the younger brother in the parable went to the far country. If younger brothers in the days of Jesus were as they have been everywhere else, maybe he grew weary of tending sheep with his father and his elder brother. Maybe life seemed to him to have ended before it […]
St. Raymond Nonnatus gave himself up to torture for the sake of Christians enslaved under Muslim rule
Our blessed Savior, in His infinite wisdom, has always allotted His best-loved friends, including St. Raymond Nonnatus, the kind of life which He had deliberately chosen for Himself: the way of the Cross.
The Ulma family: a remarkable beatification of martyrdom
Killed for having hidden eight Jews in their home in 1944, the Ulma family is due to be beatified on 10 September 2023, making it the first time an entire family will be beatified together, including the child carried in the mother’s womb at the time of her death. Read all
St. Raymond Nonnatus gave himself up to torture for the sake of Christians enslaved under Muslim rule
Our blessed Savior, in His infinite wisdom, has always allotted His best-loved friends, including St. Raymond Nonnatus, the kind of life which He had deliberately chosen for Himself: the way of the Cross.Read More