Pope Francis to visit Asia and Oceania in September
MUMBAI, India – Pope Francis will visit three countries in Asia and one in Oceania, according to a Vatican statement released on Friday. Francis is scheduled to leave Rome on September 2 and return to the Vatican on September 13. He travels first to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where he will land on September […]
Criminals attack Church facility in Odisha state in India
MUMBAI, India – A group of criminals looted the SVD Divine Word mission in Odisha, a state in western India, on April 10. A statement from the religious order said 11 people entered the teachers’ quarters which is at St. Arnold primary school in the evening and threatened the workers and the teachers. The school […]
New study expresses ‘grave concerns’ over definition of ‘brain death’
When does the brain die? While the concept of brain death has been widely accepted by medical professionals since the late-1960s, significant questions about its precise nature still remain. The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) released “Integrity in the Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges and Next Steps” to draw attention to recent events that […]
A thoughtful, faithful guide to understanding suffering
“Suffering is, in itself, an experience of evil,” Pope St. John Paul II once said. These words open the first chapter of the recent book Suffering: What Every Catholic Should Know. They also set the […]
The Spiritual Terrain of David Middleton
About midway into his fifth and most recent book of poems, Outside the Gates of Eden, David Middleton prints an elegy for the late Louisiana naturalist Caroline Dormon. There, he speaks of his “early poems,” […]