Catholics in South Sudan, Congo had hoped papal visit would lead to peace
Mary Akol Chok, a resident of Rumbek, South Sudan, is among thousands of residents who had planned to walk for more than 180 miles to the country's capital, Juba, to meet Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, during their ecumenical pilgrimage of peace.
Court: Tuition program excluding religious schools is unconstitutional
In a 6-3 ruling June 21, the Supreme Court said a Maine tuition aid program that excluded religious schools violated the Constitution's free exercise clause.
Sharing responsibility for our common mission
What is our common mission as baptized Catholic Christians? It is to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" (Mt 28:19-20). In his great commission at the end of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus asks all of us to be missionary disciples.
Eucharist is ‘an encounter with the living Lord,’ New Jersey bishop says
As dusk faded into night, so, too, did the hallmark sounds of a Saturday on the Atlantic City Boardwalk as more than a thousand Catholics lifted up their voices in prayer and song during a candlelit eucharistic procession led by Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan of Camden, New Jersey.
A legacy of human formation: Bishop Olmsted models discernment
By Kirstin Bublitz, The Catholic Sun
Sr. Anthony Mary Diago, RSM, director of the Office of Consecrated Life, recalled the moment her college roommate announced...
Two roads diverged in a desert, and these young men took a path less...
Situated across the street from St. Gregory Parish and just a mile away from Phoenix College stands a house where fraternity is a mainstay. But there are no Greek letters adorning the outside of the building.
Bishop Olmsted launches local Eucharistic Revival with Masses, processions across the diocese
Bishop Olmsted delivered an important message during his homily at San Francisco de Asis Parish (SFdA) in Flagstaff, “[Jesus] chooses us.”
Pope asks families to take a small step toward greater holiness
The Catholic Church professes marriage and family life to be a path to holiness -- a daunting concept -- but one that can start with a tiny step, Pope Francis said.
Priest who is survivor says church still needs ‘lamentation’ for abuse
As the Catholic Church in the United States marks two decades since the U.S. bishops adopted a document establishing policies to deal with allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy, Jesuit Father Jerry McGlone worries about the psychological responses the event could trigger.
‘Forming Ourselves in Synodality’
"Forming Ourselves in Synodality" is the 10th and final thematic nucleus presented in the preparatory document and the "vademecum." The prior thematic nuclei, such as companions on the journey, listening, celebration and ecumenism, refer to concrete experiences.
