At the beginning of Pope Francis’ three-day trip to Bolivia—the second stop on his three-country tour of Latin America—the Pontiff was given an odd gift by Evo Morales, the country’s president: a crucifix in the […]
Today, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, released the following statement about the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage: Regardless of what a narrow majority of the Supreme […]
Leading Vaticanista Sandro Magister has posted on the website of Italian magazine L’Espresso what appears to be the complete Italian text of Pope Francis’ widely anticipated encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si (the PDF can […]
Earlier this week news broke that one of the authors of a widely celebrated study on persuasion and same-sex marriage has disavowed the study and asked the journal Science to retract it. Donald Green, a […]
When Ramona Treviño was 16, she found out she was pregnant. Head-over-heels in love with her 19-year-old boyfriend, she dropped out of high school, had her baby, and got married. The marriage, however, was an […]
Five Dominican sisters who teach at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, California walked out of class on Friday of last week when it became evident that some students at the school were participating in […]
The latest installment of the drama currently unfolding in the Archdiocese of San Francisco saw two groups of local Catholics make known their very different opinions of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s leadership, and in no uncertain […]
Today Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper with inmates and employees of Rome’s Rebibbia Prison. During the liturgy, the Holy Father washed the feet of 12 inmates, six men and six women. […]
Earlier today the five Catholic bishops of Indiana released a joint statement on the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law last week by Governor Mike Pence. The statement, signed by Archbishop Joseph […]
“They were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians. … The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard.” Pope Francis responded today to the […]
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