Less than two months after serving as delegate in the Bishops Synod on Youth which called women’s leadership within the Church “a duty of justice,” Bishop Frank Caggiano has established a new leadership model in a Connecticut parish, appointing a woman to serve as parish life coordinator.
Without realizing it, when Pope Francis used the metaphor of a “field hospital” in his first interview to express the Church’s mission of healing the wounded, he immediately made Sister Carol Keehan’s work a lot easier.
When he was running for re-election in 1992, President George H.W. Bush told Catholic News Service that he believed that a strong religious faith could provide “an extra shot of strength when you need it.”
The revelation in late November that a Chinese researcher had edited genes in human embryos and then implanted them in a woman was “a train wreck of a thing to do,” said an ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
In a 6-1 decision Dec. 3, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said the identities of some clergy accused of abuse that were redacted from a grand jury report issued in mid-August must remain permanently blocked from release.
Everyone must help in the fight against drugs, particularly governments which are called to confront the “traffickers of death” who produce, distribute or sell addictive substances, Pope Francis said.
President George H.W. Bush died on Friday evening in Houston, Texas. He was 94. The news was announced in a statement by his son, former President George W. Bush.
When newly appointed Bishop Martin Holley arrived in Memphis in 2016, one of the first questions he would ask was, “Who are the local dignitaries I should meet?”
Eight years ago, Tyler Blanski was a long-haired denizen of Uptown Minneapolis, a “spiritual, but not religious” Christian hipster. Today, at 34, he’s a Catholic family man, a regular at incensed-enriched liturgies and just published a memoir on his conversion, “An Immovable Feast.”
At age 11, Msgr. Clement Machado claims the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him, showing him both heaven and hell and telling him that he would become a Roman Catholic priest.
