The jokes were flying at the 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a tradition that during presidential election years is usually a night where both candidates put aside their rancor and engage in light-hearted banter in a spirit of bipartisanship.
After Pope Francis last week met with several American cardinals attending this year’s Synod of Bishops, one who was notably missing from the lineup said he had not been invited to participate in the meeting.
Jennie Bradley Lichter, president-elect of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, said challenges for the group’s cause on both political and cultural fronts also present an opportunity to demonstrate “leading with love.”
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage organizers are seeking eight young adults to spend six weeks traveling with the Eucharist from Indiana to California next summer as perpetual pilgrims in the United States’ second national Eucharistic pilgrimage.
In a settlement that Archbishop José Gomez says will provide just compensation to victim-survivors and allow the local Church to continue to carry out its ministries, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will pay out $880 million to settle 1,353 childhood sexual abuse claims.
A week after the remnants of Hurricane Helene swept through the western part of North Carolina, Msgr. Patrick Winslow said everyone leading the Diocese of Charlotte’s response and recovery efforts is still trying to understand the full extent of the damage.
Ahead of polls opening next month, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is asking the local faithful, “Why would anyone want to stigmatize a primary health care facility and a pregnancy resource center that gives pregnant women support for having their babies?”
Some labor strikes can be comfortably ignored by many Americans.
As the U.S. presidential race nears a Nov. 5 political reckoning, Catholic voters nationwide continue to ponder a host of pro-life issues — among them, Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s stated support of in vitro fertilization and his proposed plan to widen its availability through federal government or private insurer coverage mandates.
Late Sept. 27 night, as the first photos and cries for help emerged after Tropical Storm Helene ripped through the North Carolina mountains, Father John Putnam texted his staff at St. Mark Church, in Huntersville: “There’s a great need for supplies for diapers, canned goods and water in the mountains. We have folks that can deliver on Sunday. Can we get a blast out?”
