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VATICAN CITY — People with disabilities were often overlooked and faced discrimination in various health care policies and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, said the Pontifical Academy for Life.
“The man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and hidden presence,” who yet “played an incomparable role in the history of salvation” — these are the words Pope Francis used to describe St. Joseph when he proclaimed a year dedicated to the saint, a patron of the Universal Church.
I noticed it first in the bookstore. A brightly colored table full of self-help books interspersed with flip flops and beach blankets promised readers that this would be the summer they’d finally become the best version of themselves. If only they’d crack open the books and do the right things and change the wrong thoughts, all would be well. Later that day, as if to beat me over the head with the message, I saw it as a meme on social media.
Steve Kehoe likes to claim credit for his father getting involved in the Knights of Columbus in the late 1970s. When Steve was 6, a childhood friend had a dad in the Knights, who recruited his dad.
In a secular culture where church membership declines every year, how do churches reach out to people in their 20s and 30s to show them what they’re missing?
Sister Karl Ann Homberg met the Sisters of St. Joseph as a first grader at Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Baltimore, a five-minute walk from home. “I always thought they lived a special life. They were focused on the children, and on helping us to grow closer to God,” she said.
After 13 years in Linden, the women at St. Dominic’s Monastery hope to finish building.
WASHINGTON — The Women's Health Protection Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House June 8 "would invalidate nearly all existing state limitations on abortion," said Jennifer Popik, director of federal legislation for National Right to Life.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The new CEO of the Knights of Columbus said the international fraternal organization's members "are poised to lead the way toward recovery and a future of renewal."
June 15 marked nine years since Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was created. DACA allows certain undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children — known as Dreamers — to remain in the country, subject to several requirements.
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