Green nuns. Green sisters. Even “eco-nuns.” Throughout America — and indeed, the world — thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing to the environmental care commitment urged by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” and its 2023 sequel, “Laudate Deum.” It’s a congregational concern that, for many of them, often predates the pontiff’s writings — but the merging of their own environmental priorities with official papal pronouncements has helpfully amplified sisterly endeavors.
A recent survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal, ranked Benedictine College, a small Catholic liberal arts college, as the sixth most highly recommended college by its students and recent alumni.
The next time former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off before a huge audience, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will sit between them as host and Catholic comic Jim Gaffigan will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
For the last six years as a faculty member at Fairfield University in southern Connecticut, Dr. Robert Nazarian has witnessed firsthand the “embarrassment of riches” the university has in faculty across disciplines doing climate related research.
Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has repeated — without evidence — claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.
For the first time, Catholics in Illinois have a natural burial option for their loved ones.
For the second time in two months, Donald Trump was the target of an alleged assassination attempt, according to the FBI, which confirmed it is investigating the incident in which shots were fired in the vicinity of the former president’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday, Sept. 15.
Asked what a U.S. Catholic given a choice between voting for a person who supports abortion or one who supports closing borders and deporting migrants, Pope Francis said one must choose “the lesser evil.”
Jennie Bradley Lichter, an accomplished attorney and ardent pro-life advocate, has been elected as the next president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, the organization announced.
Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman’s life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.
