Perspective: Years ago, clergy abuse survivor Phil Saviano said, “I am not faithful.” Yet Phil chose a funeral Mass, at the same church where he was abused as a boy. He brought his abuse and Catholicism together in a demanding, potentially fruitful way.

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