Make sure evacuated kids will be reunited with parents, Vatican paper says
Heartbreaking images of mothers and fathers handing their infants and toddlers to U.S. soldiers during the evacuation of Kabul were like seeing the desperation of Jochebed, Moses' mother, as she put him in a basket in the Nile River to save him, said an editorial in the Vatican newspaper.
Hypocrisy in the church is ‘detestable,’ pope says at audience
Hypocrites are afraid of the truth, fearful of who they really are and incapable of truly loving, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience.
Sisters of Life announces new foundation in the Diocese of Phoenix
Next month, five Sisters of Life will establish a religious community in Phoenix.
Laypeople join religious order in ‘ministry of presence’ for terminally ill
For over 100 years in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Sisters Servants of Mary have kept overnight vigil with the terminally ill in their homes, a ministry of such abundant charity that families caring full time for a loved one can't begin to express their gratitude.
Richest nations urged to tackle financial turmoil worsened by pandemic
Leaders from the world's 20 largest economies are facing "make-or-break" decisions that can boost health care, reduce poverty and address the impact of climate change in developing nations when they meet in October in Italy, said the executive director of an alliance of faith-based development and debt relief advocacy organizations.
Court ruling upholding Texas abortion law called ‘long-awaited victory’
A spokeswoman with Texas Right to Life said a federal appeals court ruling upholding the Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban is a "long-awaited victory" Texans are celebrating.
Eleven years after a massacre of migrants, a mother remembers son’s trek
Blanca Estela Garcia remembers watching the news on television: A group of migrants headed north had been shot to death by the Mexican cartel known as Los Zetas Aug. 24, 2010.
Push to ban ‘killer robots’ gets a boost from the Vatican and the pope
Among the many threats to human life and dignity, the Vatican is making sure that the widening use of lethal autonomous weapons systems worldwide is not reduced to a natural progression of technology that people learn to accept and live with.
Pope sends aid to those hit by disasters in Haiti, Bangladesh, Vietnam
Pope Francis will be sending nearly a quarter of a million dollars to help people in Haiti, who are struggling in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake during a global pandemic.
COVID-19 makes an already dangerous trek to U.S. border more perilous
July saw record encounters between Customs and Border Protection agents and people attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border -- 213,000 in total, said U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during an Aug. 12 trip to McAllen and Brownsville in Texas.
