In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump declared this to be a “new American moment,” in a speech he described as a bid for bipartisanship, but which elicited reactions that broke along largely predictable partisan lines – a split that also characterized immediate Catholic reaction.
As Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York prepares to hand over the reins of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee to Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., both men are in agreement that the pro-life work of the bishops’ conference serves as the cornerstone of its public policy work.
Ross Douthat and Austen Ivereigh, two of the most prominent commentators on 21st century Catholicism, shared a stage for the first time to engage in a high-level conversation on the Francis papacy.
When Pope Francis convalidated the marriage of two flight attendants in the air, the story sent waves of turbulence through the Catholic blogosphere, but the Holy Father did not make the decision on the fly.
Pope Francis asked a longtime expert in handling abuse allegations to gather new information in Chile concerning Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno.
The religious women of the diocese are invited to attend a program titled “Roots and Wings: The Life and History of Religious Communities in the Diocese of Brooklyn: Brothers and Sisters to Us All” at Immaculate Conception Monastery (lower church), Jamaica, on Saturday, March 10.
Julia Green lifts Sarah Tomic as she gives a high five to the statue of Pope St. John Paul II
The Irish government announced it will hold a referendum in late May asking citizens whether they want to retain or delete the constitutional article that provides for the equal right to life of the mother and her unborn child “with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother.”
Michael Zwosta, the father of Father Joseph M. Zwosta, who resides at St. Mark’s rectory, Sheepshead Bay, while in post-ordination studies, died Jan. 24.
Catherine West, the mother of Father Patrick West, pastor of Corpus Christi parish, Woodside, died Jan. 24.
