Puerto Rico Tries to Recover and Rebuild After Years of Disasters, Financial Hardship
March 8, 2021
Father Enrique Camacho has lived with his parents in San Juan, Puerto Rico, since 2017. He moved there after Hurricane...
John Lavenburg
Papal Visit to ‘Shine a Light’ on Plight of Christian Iraqis, U.S. Religious Freedom Commissioner Says
March 5, 2021
Ever since Iraq’s liberation from the Islamic State group in 2017, Nadine Maenza has noticed the world continues to pay...
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Raises Ethical Concerns
March 3, 2021
Several Catholic ethicists are urging people to steer clear of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine if possible, but at...
Panelists Urge Respect for Human Dignity as Nation Tackles Poverty
March 2, 2021
Lorena Melgarejo remembers a time after her husband died that she couldn’t always be there for her three-year-old child because...
Black Religious Orders Broke Racial Barriers in America
February 24, 2021
When it comes to the earliest orders of Black Catholic religious sisters in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams wants...
U.S. Bishops Highlight Religious Liberty Concerns With Equality Act
February 24, 2021
Ahead of a House of Representatives vote this week, the U.S. bishop’s conference denounced the Equality Act as a bill...
As Storm Paralyzes Much of Texas, Catholic Charities Shift Into Overdrive
February 19, 2021
For almost a week, amid an historic winter storm that’s left much of Texas paralyzed and shut down, Father Pat...
Catholic Leaders Call on Biden to Rescue Reeling Puerto Rico
February 17, 2021
There have been enough earthquakes in Puerto Rico over the past year and a half that the sensation has stuck...
Amid Record Snow, Texas Scrambles to Reconfigure Ash Wednesday
February 17, 2021
Parishes across the state of Texas have canceled Ash Wednesday Masses amid a winter storm that’s left over three million...
Black Religious Orders Broke Racial Barriers in the U.S.
February 11, 2021
When it comes to the earliest orders of Black Catholic religious sisters in the United States, Shannen Dee Williams wants...