The 11-day visit combines pastoral encounters with Catholic communities, meetings with political leaders and civil society, and symbolic gestures of interreligious dialogue and reconciliation. Credit: Libin Jose/Shutterstock The Vatican has …
The Vatican has released the official itinerary for the first apostolic journey of Pope Leo XIV to Africa, scheduled for April 13–23. The visit will take the Holy Father to …
Disturbed by the widespread demolition and repurposing of churches across the U.K., Samuel Leeds has launched a personal mission to purchase and restore these historic buildings. Crucifix. | Credit: ungvar/Shutterstock …
Millionaire businessman and philanthropist Samuel Leeds is on a mission to preserve U.K. churches that are being put up for sale and repurposed: “When something was built as a church …
Amid violence and aid shortages, Dr. Tom Catena operates the only hospital in the remote region of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, home to what he calls “one of the …
As the only doctor at a hospital serving more than 2 million people, Dr. Tom Catena works seven days a week and is on call every night — and still …
The medal recognizes what organizers described as the pontiff’s lifelong advocacy for religious liberty and freedom of conscience — principles embedded in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
When Catholic hierarchs speak about economic issues, I beg them to keep in mind the following. Vice riddles the soul. You can no more raise a vice-ridden person out of …
On the far end of South Philadelphia, at the end of its seemingly endless labyrinth of tight, narrow streets, is a small, gold-capped, domed church with its crumbling stairs facing …
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said in a March 15 pastoral message that “the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one …
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