Invoking John Paul the Great
Gerard Julien Pope John Paul II prays Oct. 11, 1998 at Saint Peters square during the ceremony making Edith Stein a saint. COMMENTARY: St. John Paul II, pray for us!
Catholic High School Decades in the Making Breaks Ground in Northern Colorado
Monica Yee The graduating senior class pioneered St. John Paul II High School in Colorado as freshmen. The 12 students are the first to have gone through all four years of the St. John Paull II program. As the closest Catholic high school in a 45-mile radius, St. John Paul II draws students from a […]
Jailed Pro-Lifer, Awaiting Appeal, Spends Time in Prayer and Reading Catholic Classics
John Hinshaw is supported by friends and family, including his wife, Brenda. John Hinshaw, of Long Island, New York, has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Invoking John Paul the Great
ROME. Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I remember high school classes that felt as long as Würm Glaciation, the minute hand circumambulating the clock’s perimeter at a glacial pace. […]
Palliative care sign of compassion, hope for the dying, pope says
In a messageto an international interfaith symposium on palliative care, Pope Francis highlighted how true compassion involves accompanying the suffering, not ending lives, and stressed the need for palliative care as a sign of solidarity and love.
ICC arrest warrants: law and war
Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, believes that Israel is violating the law by deliberately targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip. The decision is an essential test for the international community, where democracies defend an order based on universal principles and rules.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan takes on the “Goliaths” of the world
Karim Khan seeks an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister. The British lawyer has defended victims in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, served as a war crimes defense attorney, and investigated ISIS crimes before joining the International Criminal Court.
In Africa, a massive project creates the illusion of reforestation
Launched at the end of 2015, the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative aims to restore 319 million acres of degraded land in Africa. Behind the project supported by billionaire Jeff Bezos, researchers point to counterproductive effects on climate and biodiversity.
Reflecting on humility, Pope concludes general audiences on vices, virtues (CWN)
At his May 22 general audience, held in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis reflected on humility, in the final talk in a five-month series of Wednesday general audiences devoted to the virtues and vices.
South Africa: Bishop Rodrigues calls for peaceful and fair elections
Ahead of the scheduled 29 May general elections in South Africa, the liaison Bishop for the Department of Catholic Social Action of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) has called on eligible voters to choose leaders with ethical and moral values Read all