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Sally O’Dwyer, director of volunteers for Catholic Charities, and Margot Chavez, communications associate and volunteer coordinator, presented two talks at the 2018 Catholic Charities USA annual gathering in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 12-14.
The Vatican’s representation to the U.N. includes a cadre of interns and fellows.
Pope Francis told a group of Japanese visitors to the Vatican that he wants to visit Japan in 2019. And the president of Mozambique announced that Pope Francis plans to visit the country next year.
Years ago, when I interviewed Kathy DiFiore, an exemplary woman who founded a network of shelters in New Jersey for homeless teenage mothers and abused women, she mentioned how the inspiration for her ministry came while she was praying, "Lord, make me a channel of your peace."
Growing up, many of my family’s summer vacations took place at the ocean. Whenever we could afford it we would head for Cape Cod, New Hampshire or Maine.
The speaker was a highly sophisticated layman, possessor of a doctorate and professor of theology at a major Catholic university.
The gunman who fired the shot in El Salvador March 24, 1980, that killed San Salvador's revered Archbishop Oscar Romero while he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel surely did not aim to help create a martyr whose life and legacy one day would be honored throughout the world.
Rocks, mineral debris and even dust from space are kept in special collections, museums and laboratories all over the world, and the Vatican Observatory took the first small step to help curators make a giant leap in coordinating their efforts globally.
The beatification of 19 martyrs of Algeria, including the seven Trappist monks of Tibhirine, will be celebrated Dec. 8 in Oran, Algeria, the country's bishops announced.
Wisdom from above
A common theme unites all three of our readings today. It is stated simply in the letter of St. James as “wisdom from above.”