Public health law experts: Federal vaccine mandate has strong legal footing
President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate for workplaces with more than 100 people on the payroll is rooted in existing law governing worker protections, said a trio of public health law experts.
Donation called expression of U.S. Catholics’ affection for Paris cathedral
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington has collected and donated nearly half a million dollars to assist the restoration and rebuilding efforts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was extensively damaged in a fire two years ago.
Getting old is not a disease, it’s a privilege, pope tells older priests
Getting to be a ripe old age is a privilege, Pope Francis told older priests.
Leadership is distorted by thirst for power, betraying charism, pope says
Pope Francis praised Catholic lay movements and associations for living out the Gospel in their everyday lives and for promoting education, social support and evangelization in the world's peripheries.
Modern Catholic Pilgrim puts new emphasis on walking pilgrimages tradition
Walking pilgrimages to religious sites have been a popular way of expressing and building one's faith and connection to God for centuries.
Two Miami priests hope to visit Haitian migrants in limbo at Texas border
Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with some of the thousands of migrants stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Catholics should debate issues, not debase each other, cardinal says
Honest and open debate about different points of view in the Catholic Church are fundamental, but Catholics should not be demonizing the individuals with those views, Cardinal George Pell said.
Armenian bishops elect former U.S. pastor as patriarch
The bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church elected Archbishop Raphaël François Minassian, the ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, to be their church's new patriarch.
SSPX leader says vaccination can be morally ‘prudent’
While denouncing as an "abuse of power" coercive measures to promote vaccination against COVID-19, a leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said getting vaccinated "may sometimes be an eminently prudent act in the moral sense of the term."
‘Human mobility’ is reality all local churches must address, says cardinal
Just as the "perilous state of the natural and social environments" drove Pope Francis to speak of "our one, shared common home," so too does the worldwide aspect of migration "and desperate flight," a Vatican official told a Chicago conference Sept. 21.
