I No Longer Call You Servant
I work with homeless and at-risk youth. I’ve been doing it for 42 years, the first few decades in or around New York City but for the last 20 years in Vermont. I’m an executive director, a role which entails...
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Hellhole: The Martyrdom of the Church in Nicaragua
Editor’s note: This article is intended to provide people in the English-speaking world with a comprehensive introduction to the situation of the Church in Nicaragua in recent years, including the latest developments. The author of this article, “Carmelita,” is better known...
A Fatima miracle, the Pope, and Our Lady of the Snows
The story of the miraculous healing of a young Catholic pilgrim on August 5 in Fatima during the World Youth Day festivities has recently been circulating widely in Catholic media. According to several news sources, the young teenaged Spanish pilgrim...
WYD 2023: The Pilgrim Cross and “Unlocking Down” the Faith
LISBON, PORTUGAL — July 31, 2023 The pilgrimage of the symbols was one of the highlights discussed at the opening press conference for World Youth Day (WYD) today. In the weeks leading up to each WYD gathering, two symbols are...
Humanitarian crisis at the Texas-Mexico border
Texas bishops respond to “horrific tragedies occurring along the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexico border.”
Building Catholic Futures
There’s little question that the way we discuss LGBTQ persons and issues needs significant improvement. At worst, when pastors and catechists talk about homosexuality in Catholic spaces, they present LGBTQ individuals as enemies or speak about them with pity. But...
Pope Francis: All Nations must Work to Eradicate Hunger
In a message addressed to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization’s 43rd Session, taking place in Rome the first week of July, Pope Francis called for “joint, multicultural action” on the part of all nations and organizations to aid...
Pope to new doctrine chief: Keep the faith
In his letter accompanying the appointment of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis invites his new Prefect to focus on the “main purpose” of the Dicastery: “keeping the faith.” These are...
Mother Mary Lange declared Venerable by Pope Francis
Nate Tinner-Williams has the scoop at Black Catholic Messenger: Pope Francis has declared as venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, the Cuban-born foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Black Catholic religious order in the United States. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of...
How Latin American synodality shaped Francis’s vision
When examining Pope Francis’s perspective on synodality, many observers, both proponents and detractors, often discuss two possible influences that helped shape his approach. One factor they often point out is the extent to which the way the Church was organized...
“It is he above all whom the Church needs today!”
Because today is the day after Pentecost, we celebrate the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, a feast established by Pope Francis in 2018. It is a moveable feast, which means its date is determined each...
Were all saints in full communion with Rome?
On May 11, 2023, Pope Francis added 21 Coptic Orthodox martyrs to the Roman Martyrology, during a visit of the Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to Rome. This was described by Pope Francis as a “sign of the spiritual communion...
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