May 31 Honoring Veterans and U.S. Cathedral turns 200!
“The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity leads us to contemplate the mystery of God who unceasingly creates, redeems and sanctifies, always with love and through love.”–Pope Francis
Just after the US bishops launched a petition urging the government to prevent federal taxpayer funding of abortion, President Joe Biden, only the country’s second Roman Catholic commander-in-chief, took steps to make such funding a reality. Read more
Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Gregory W. Gordon, vicar general of the Las Vegas Diocese since 2020, to be an auxiliary bishop of the Nevada diocese. Bishop-designate Gordon, 60, also has been diocesan chancellor and moderator of the diocese since 2020. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Nevada, he was ordained a priest for Las Vegas Jan. 16, 1988. Read more
The first Catholic cathedral in the United States could have been a Gothic structure, but the first bishop for the Catholic Church in America wanted something forward-looking for the new country. Read more
After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the U.S. Read more
Responding to editors' requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press, here is an editorial titled: " Navigating new COVID-19 guidelines as a church," published online May 18 by Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly based in Huntington, Indiana. Read more
SCOTUS abortion case; pay cut protests at Vatican: Last Week in the Church with John Allen Jr.
In this episode: U.S. Supreme Court and abortion law; Vatican employees protest pay cuts; charity fraud in Diocese of Padua raises concerns; Vatican invites dioceses to take part in synod on synodality; 6th anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical, Laudato Si.
More than 700,000 foreigners in Italy are "invisible" in the eyes of the country's COVID-19 vaccination campaign and are being denied legal access to the vaccines, warned a top public official. Read more
Lidia Maksymowicz, a Polish woman of Belarusian origin who survived the Nazi concentration camps, uncovered her arm today during the greetings after the General Audience, revealing her tattoo as a former prisoner of Auschwitz. Read more
El llamamiento del Papa Francisco al rezo del Rosario en este mes de mayo, dedicado de forma especial a la Virgen, para invocar el fin de la pandemia, ha sido acogido en todas las partes del mundo y se han promovido numerosas iniciativas de oración, empezando, como es sabido, por los santuarios marianos repartidos por los cinco continentes. Leer más
"Esta mundanidad asfixiante se cura saboreando el aire puro del Espíritu Santo, que nos libera de permanecer centrados en nosotros mismos, escondidos en una apariencia religiosa vacía de Dios. Leer más
Como signo final, el Papa Francisco ha querido dirigir su oración a una imagen de la Virgen de la que es muy devoto: la Virgen María Desatando Nudos. Leer más