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.
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Solidarity Is Our Word
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.
Technology and Faith Tell Story of Christ’s Tomb
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.
Bishop Seitz: Dreamers Have ‘Renewed Everyone’s Faith in the American Dream’
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.
How Popular Is the Pope?
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.
Bishops Back More Controls on Guns
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.”
Bishop Barron: Upcoming Synod on Young People More Important Than Last Two Synods
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.
Examining Bishop Juan Barros Sex Abuse Cover Up
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.
Court Gives New Life To DACA
The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the Trump administration’s effort to end a program in March that protects young adults brought to the U.S. without legal permission as minors.
Dozens of Catholics arrested as they ask Congress to help ‘Dreamers’
Dozens of Catholics, including men and women religious, were arrested near the U.S. Capitol Feb. 27 in the rotunda of a Senate building in Washington as they called on lawmakers to help young undocumented adults brought to the U.S. as minors obtain some sort of permanent legal status.