Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, and a longtime advocate for immigrants and refugees, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2018 Laetare Medal at the school’s graduation ceremony May 20.
The Boston-based organization Catholic Democrats asked pastors and parish administrators in a Pennsylvania congressional district to steer clear of partisan politicking prior to a March 13 special election.
As schools across the United States participate in the National School Walkout Day March 14 to raise awareness of gun violence, a number of Catholic institutions are adding a prayerful component to the day’s events.
Pope Francis has “catapulted” the concerns of working people and placed them at the center of the conversation for the Church, said an all-star panel assessing the Holy Father’s influence on the labor movement.
The National Geographic Museum exhibit, “Tomb of Christ: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience,” serves as an immersive tour of the ancient church built on the site where Christ is believed to have been crucified and buried.
On the very day that President Donald Trump’s deadline for Congress to act on DACA was set to expire, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, told congressional leaders that Dreamers had “renewed everyone’s faith in the American dream” and it was time for lawmakers to find a permanent solution to protect them.
In the advent of Pope Francis’ fifth anniversary in the papacy, a new Pew Research poll of U.S. Catholics shows their regard of the pope is colored by their political leanings.
Following last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a call for Congress to work together to find “concrete proposals” in response to the “crisis of gun violence.”
Pope Francis’ upcoming Synod on Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment will be more important than the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family, says Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles, Calif.
As Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta returns from his on-the-ground investigation of alleged sex abuse cover-up by Bishop Juan Barros of the Chilean Diocese of Osorno, some American Catholics have likened this latest chapter of the Church’s clerical sex abuse scandals to post-traumatic stress disorder.
