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Father Augustus Tolton, the first identified Black priest ordained for the United States, would likely be disappointed by what he sees going on in the United States today, said Father David Jones, pastor of St. Benedict the African Church in Chicago.
PHOENIX (CNS) -- Robin Puttock gave the students in her architecture class at The Catholic University of America in Washington an unusual assignment -- to consider how the design of a workspace affects mental health.
Though more people are allowed in churches, many parishioners still opt to stay home.
Diocesan numbers from the past three months suggest that parishioners have embraced livestreamed Masses, which offer a safe and convenient way to stay connected to church, with no masks or social distancing required.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After more than a year of preliminary studies and three difficult operations, a medical team at the Vatican-owned pediatric hospital successfully separated conjoined twin girls.
When he started his career as a teacher at an inner-city Catholic high school in Washington in 1964, Dan Curtin had no ambitious plans to rise through the ranks of Catholic education, advising bishops and cardinals, and becoming a leader in the organization that serves as the national voice for Catholic schools.
Not long after coming to power in 1933, the German government headed by Adolf Hitler sought a formal agreement with the Holy See — a concordat setting terms of the church-state relationship. No sooner was the concordat in place, however, than the Nazis began violating it, prompting dozens of formal protests from the Vatican.
This case examined if courts can hear employment discrimination claims brought by teachers at Catholic elementary schools.
Tonight I wrote two events on my calendar: a birthday party and a baptism.
They will be sanitized, scaled-down gatherings — and they will be fun — but still, it pained me to sully those blank boxes with black ink.
Wheat and weeds
Isaiah Chapter 55 says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways” (55:8). This reminder the Lord gives us through his prophet may well resound in our minds as we consider the Gospel passage for the 16th week in ordinary time. In this text, Christ makes clear that though the wicked certainly grow among the good in the field of the world, he is the one who will separate them out at the end of time, and it is not ours to root them out at will.