American self-defense law is generally quite sensible, and in fact coheres remarkably well with Catholic teaching on self-defense. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, wrote: Wherefore if a man, in self-defense, uses more than necessary violence, […]
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and