“When you’re talking about a statue being smashed, it’s kind of hard to know what’s going on. There’s not really a message there,” said Aaron Weldon of the USCCB’s Office of Religious Liberty. “Did they single out the Catholic Church, or is it simply that our symbols of religion are so visible that they make an easy target?”
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
