Indiana Catholic hospitals set timelines for worker-required vaccinations
Two major Catholic health care systems with hospitals in the Indianapolis Archdiocese and throughout Indiana are among a growing number of Catholic health care providers across the nation requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Catholic New Yorker continues quest for accountability 20 years after 9/11
After seeing the Taliban's sweep through Afghanistan to retake governing control, Colleen Kelly wonders if accountability for the death of her brother in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York 20 years ago and the subsequent war in Afghanistan will ever be achieved.
British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past
In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history's most notorious crimes.
Caritas Pakistan plans for humanitarian crisis at Afghanistan border
Caritas Pakistan has alerted its diocesan units bordering neighboring Afghanistan to help refugees fleeing the Taliban's takeover of the country, reported ucanews.com.
Courage needed to place needs of others first, cardinal says
The sense of shared responsibility for the common good requires the courage to place the needs of others before one's own, a Vatican official wrote on behalf of Pope Francis.
Brazilian bishop resigns after inappropriate video goes viral
Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva of São José do Rio Preto resigned after a video of him exposing himself on an internet call went viral on social media Aug. 13. The resignation was accepted by Pope Francis and the Brazilian bishops' conference Aug. 18.
Chinese archbishop: Three stages to ‘drama’ involving church, communists
The ongoing "drama" between Chinese Catholics and the nation's communist leaders has three stages, said Chinese Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, the Vatican's nuncio to Greece.
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans
Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees called on the U.S. government to "act with utmost urgency" to resettle thousands of Afghan citizens entering the country under special immigrant visas.
God’s law meant to bring freedom, not lifelong ‘servitude,’ pope says
The purpose of the law in Christian life is not to forcibly subjugate others, but to teach men and women the way to obtain true freedom in Christ, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience.
Vaccination is an act of love, pope says in ad campaign
When each individual makes a small act of charity, like getting the COVID-19 vaccine, every gesture added together can transform the world, Pope Francis said in a global ad campaign.
