Pope Francis tells children: You can’t build peace while ‘lying on the couch’
The world can change for the better only when people are out in the world, “not lying on the couch,” Pope Francis told some 6,000 Italian schoolchildren.
Pope Francis Issues Motu Proprio on Vatican Judiciary Retirement Age and Benefits
Pope Francis addresses the faithful at his Wednesday general audience on March 27, 2024. Magistrates and judges who wish to resign from office before the retirement age can only do so with the approval of the Pope.
Secular University’s Head of Holocaust Studies Finds ‘Warmer Welcome’ at Catholic University
Mike Murray Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., facing the pond from the La Maison-Francais building. Her departure comes as a number of Catholic universities have sought to make themselves more hospitable to Jewish students amid the war between Israel and Hamas since the Oct. 7 attack on innocents in Israel.
Review: New York City is Vampire Weekend’s muse on ‘Only God Was Above Us’
“Only God Was Above Us” is a definitive “we’re back” statement from Vampire Weekend.
Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ is a solid adaptation of the books. But it could use some religion.
“3 Body Problem” is an imaginative Netflix adaptation of Cixin Liu’s trilogy of sci-fi novels—and yet is mostly true to the books.
I’ve always loved relics. After my cancer diagnosis, they mean even more to me.
Our theology of relics tells us something beautiful and profound not only about God but about what we believe about materiality itself.
Planned Parenthood annual report shows increase in abortion, decrease in health services
Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows an increase in abortions from the previous year, while also showing a decrease in health services. In its 2022-2023 annual report, titled “Above and Beyond,” detailed its operations from 2021-2022, a window of time that included the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health […]
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As IMF and World Bank meet, Catholic agency warns of deeper debt crisis
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank hold their Spring meeting, a leading Catholic international aid group says the world is sinking “deeper into a global sovereign debt crisis.” The two leading groups are meeting in Washington, DC, from April 15-20. Maria Finnerty, Economic Justice Policy Lead at CAFOD – the official […]
Earth Day 2024: It’s time for the Catholic Church to give up fossil fuels for good
Pope Francis says that responses to climate change “have not been adequate.” This Earth Day, both clergy and laypeople must repent of our sins of omission and work toward decarbonization.