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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis sent a letter of gratitude to a Spanish teen with an intellectual disability after the 15-year-old traveled more than 60 miles along the famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, members of the city's Italian American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed in a more secure location.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted humanity's vulnerability and interdependence, as well as serious social and economic inequalities, the Pontifical Academy for Life said in a new document.The eight-page reflection, "'Humana Communitas' in the Age of Pandemic," details a number of key and "untimely meditations on life's rebirth" in the face of a global health, environmental and economic crisis.
Local Catholics staff the new Dreamcoat and Calix Helpline for Addictions.
Christ House distributes kid-friendly food for the summer.
A $45,000 grant helps the parish provide for triple the number of pre-pandemic clients.
Father Kilanowski, a mathematics professor at Providence College in Rhode Island, has been a baseball stats guy since his freshman year in high school, when he was a student manager of his school’s baseball team.
Three new members of the Catholic Charities board of directors were named by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge in June.They are Maria del Pilar Vazquez Calva, Kelly Sweeney McGinn and Ingrid Parris-Hicklin.
Disappointed pro-lifers were predictably angry at Chief Justice John Roberts for providing the fifth vote in the five-member Supreme Court majority that last month struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who do abortions to meet one mildly restrictive prescription. It was no surprise that the court’s four liberals — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer (who wrote the opinion), Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — voted as they did, but Roberts, a conservative, came as a shock.
