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By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — In the Supreme Court’s 2021-2022 term, which concluded June 30, it issued four opinions on religious liberty cases, siding with religion each time. Two of the cases involved prayer and all of them looked at the exclusion of religion. The cases involved chaplains praying with death-row prisoners during executions; a Christian flag flying […]
Columns
By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
How to obtain relics? Q. Please forgive my awful handwriting. I have multiple sclerosis and also Parkinson’s disease and can no longer do very well on a typewriter or computer. My question is: Why is it so hard to obtain first-class relics? (Also, do I need permission from my bishop to obtain them?) I am now […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
Think about a time when you struggled, when you suffered, when you strained to stay upright in a storm. Did you pray? Did you call out to God and ask him to walk with you along the hard path? If you did, was he very near to you, or was he some vague, abstract, last-ditch […]
Columns
By Susan T. Muskett
In May, the Fairfax County School Board agreed to solicit feedback from parents on proposed Family Life Education (FLE) sex-ed initiatives that would significantly affect the innocence of children in Fairfax public elementary schools and advance a blurring of all distinctions between male and female biological sex. The parental input will take place this fall. […]
National
By Catholic News Service
CHICAGO — Saying he watched “in horror” news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims. At least six people died and more than two dozen others were injured. What should have been a peaceful celebration of […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a wide-ranging interview with the Reuters news agency, Pope Francis condemned abortion, dismissed the idea that he’s preparing to resign and said he still hopes to be able to visit Russia and Ukraine in the fall. Pope Francis also told Philip Pullella, the Reuters’ Vatican correspondent, that while the Vatican’s 2018 […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, a former Vatican official, a longtime champion of the poor, a prime mover behind the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon and a “good friend” of Pope Francis, died July 4, just over a month before his 88th birthday. Pope Francis told reporters in 2013 that Cardinal Hummes […]
Global
By Barb Fraze
WASHINGTON — Congregations of women religious throughout the world can feel overwhelmed with the care needed by older sisters, but often, resources taken for granted in developed countries do not even exist in other countries. For instance, while congregations worldwide provide their older sisters with access to spiritual care, only 11 percent of nuns in […]
Movies
By John Mulderig
NEW YORK — Tongue-in-cheek humor paces the vivid action in “Thor: Love and Thunder” (Disney), the third direct sequel to the Marvel Comics-based franchise’s 2011 original. While it makes for an aesthetically satisfying extension of the saga, however, the film pushes the series’ previous boundaries in a number of ways, making it unsuitable for any […]
Global
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced it has completed the sale of a property in London that is at center of a Vatican trial for 10 people, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, accused of financial malfeasance. In a statement released July 1, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, known by its Italian initials […]
