Police officer Wilbert Mora, the second cop to die in the Harlem shooting that killed Det. Jason Rivera, was generous in death.
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Religious Order Leads Affordable Housing Project on Closed Catholic Campus
In a project led by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, regular working folks will have dwellings they can afford in one of Oregon’s highest rent districts by fall 2023.
Christmas Day Wedding In Texas Hospital Brings joy to a Family
Even as the public has grown weary of the pandemic, Catholic chaplains at hospitals continue to work hard ministering to patients with COVID-19 and those battling other illnesses.
Support Grows For Tax-Credit Scholarships for Chicago Catholic Students
Donations for tax-credit scholarships to the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Catholic schools are up about 20% this year compared with the same time last year, archdiocesan officials reported.
Cardinal Urges Gathering’s Participants To ‘Work For Greater Justice’
“Time is never meant to be useless,” said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington in his homily at the opening Mass this year’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, and he advised the gathering’s 800-plus registrants to “work for greater justice in our world.”
Knowing Black Catholic History Can Help End Racism, Professor Says
The history of Black Catholics and other marginalized people in the U.S. church covering more than two centuries is one worth knowing and can guide the church’s response to the challenges of racism and social justice, historian Shannen Dee Williams believes.
Prayer Can Guide Encounters At the Margins In Work For Justice, Bishop Says
For all the years Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, has spent ministering at the Mexican border with people on the move to the United States, it was a young girl, he said, who taught him about hope.
CCBQ Donates Mobile Office To Aid Kentucky Tornado Victims
Last month, Msgr. Alfred LoPinto, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, decided the organization’s mobile office would get better use in Western Kentucky where a spake of killer tornadoes had just torn across the region.
Catholic Bishops Lament Death Penalty as Executions Resume in 2022
After Alabama carried out the second execution of the year on Thursday, Jan. 27, the archbishop of Mobile vowed that he and the state’s other prelates would continue to speak out against capital punishment.
Catholic School Officials Offer Guidance on Changing Mask Policies
As regulations differ across the country about face mask requirements in schools, some Catholic diocesan school officials have stepped in to provide guidance for faculty, parents and students.