Universal access to water still a distant reality
This year’s theme for World Water Day observed every March 22 is Leveraging Water for Peace. Despite advancements, over 2 billion people still face restricted access to clean drinking water, an essential resource increasingly at the heart of conflicts.
A new walking pilgrimage culture? National Eucharistic Pilgrimage organizer has plans for US
ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) — In March 2017, Will Peterson and his friend David Cable stepped out Peterson’s front door in Lexington, Kentucky, to begin a pilgrimage. Their destination was the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani, some 70 miles away. The journey is 75 minutes by car along the Bluegrass Parkway, but the friends didn’t […]
Cardinal Cantalamessa gives fifth Lenten sermon
Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the Preacher of the Papal Household, delivers his fifth sermon for Lent 2024 to Roman Curia, reflecting on Jesus’ words, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life.’ Read all
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The World that Google Wants to See
If Big Tech companies have observed anything about human nature in their rise to economic, political, and cultural dominance, it is that Homo sapiens prefer artificial, digital experiences to the places and relationships their bodies actually inhabit. Big Tech has found that its consumers hold onto reality lightly, and appear endlessly willing to enter cyberspace […]
Against Pettiness
If there is anything that really marks out our present era, it is pettiness – small-mindedness. One thinks immediately, of course, of the campaign against the Tridentine Mass on the part of many in the Catholic hierarchy. The torture in which so many prelates seem to delight in ranges from closing down long-established Latin Mass […]
Pope laicizes Belgian bishop 14 years after he admitted to abusing nephews
Roger Vangheluwe, former bishop of Brugge, was suspended from ministry in 2010 for sex abuse of minors; his dismissal from the clerical state was long awaited in Belgium
Patriarch Pizzaballa: The situation in Gaza is intollerable
Speaking to Italian television, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says that “everyone must do everything possible to put an end this situation.” Read all
USCCB urges State Department not to tie foreign aid to support for gender ideology, abortion (USCCB)
The general counsel and associate general counsel of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have urged the State Department to modify its proposed nondiscrimination rules for foreign-aid contracts—rules whose ambiguity could be used to force grant recipients to facilitate abortion, homosexual activity, and transgender surgery. “In the case of foreign assistance for the provision […]
Churches in Latin American call on prayers for Haiti
Latin American Catholics were scheduled to hold special prayers for Haiti on Friday, as the Caribbean nations a plague of violence. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported three Latin American Catholic bodies asked people around the world to “join the cry of the Haitian people so that [it] may be heard on earth […]