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Evangelizing and caring for others is at core of deacons' vocation, nuncio says.  

According to “Orientalium Ecclesiarum,” the Second Vatican Council document about Eastern Christian Churches, the term “rite” simply refers to the liturgy, ecclesiastical discipline and spiritual heritage of a certain group of Christians. But how these Eastern Christian Churches became part of the Catholic Church is a bigger story.

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court, interest groups and politicians are insisting that any replacement must pledge to uphold the court's Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.

Things have come to a sorry pass in Canada. 

Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, who attended the Second Vatican Council and became a pioneer in the ecumenical movement and later offered a pacifist voice to war and the production of nuclear weapons, died July 22 at his home in Helena, Mont. 

I had the opportunity to spend a day at the FIAT Days Camp at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., July 8-12.