People with disabilities faced more barriers during pandemic, academy says
People with disabilities were often overlooked and faced discrimination in various health care policies and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Pandemic recovery requires conversion, pope says
Promoting the holistic development of everyone requires conversion, "and especially decisions that convert death into life and weapons into food," Pope Francis said.
On DACA anniversary, bishop urges pathway to citizenship for ‘Dreamers’
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee marked the ninth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program June 15 by urging Congress to act on creating a pathway to citizenship for its beneficiaries.
Pope Francis calls for embrace of displaced people of Central America
Pope Francis said the COVID-19 crisis has made it clear that "human beings are like dust, but valuable dust in God's eyes," and it's important to keep that in mind when dealing with those fleeing from various crises in Central America.
Catholic dads take a closer look at St. Joseph as ‘pillar of the family’
Joe Herman, a longtime member of St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Astoria, Oregon, was named after his grandfather, not St. Joseph.
In virtual summer assembly, USCCB’s Archbishop Gomez calls for unity
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops urged unity in an address June 16, the first day of the prelates' three-day spring plenary assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Bishops approve Liturgy of the Hours, penance, Marian translations
A decadelong series of retranslating and approving liturgical texts is nearing its end but isn't quite there yet, but three affirmative votes at the U.S. bishops' spring meeting brings it closer.
Bishops OK draft of framework for marriage, family life ministry
The U.S. bishops approved a draft document that provides a pastoral framework meant to strengthen marriage and family ministry in parishes and dioceses.
Bishop says norms were never intent of potential document on Eucharist
Creating national norms was never the intent behind a proposal to write a new document on the Eucharist, said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine.
Seen and unseen: The role of faith, reason in the search for alien life
With the expected release this month of the U.S. Department of Defense's report on unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs, the search for alien life beyond Earth's solar system is back in the limelight.
