Three years after he asked the world’s Catholics to walk together in faith on a synodal journey, Pope Francis said that the church cannot risk becoming “static” but must continue as a “missionary church that walks with her Lord through the streets of the world.”
Pete Stamm recently flew 5,000 miles to another continent, not for adventure or leisure, but for a simple drink of water. Just before the start of the school year, Stamm, a social studies teacher at Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Glendale, flew to the African country of Ghana and made his way to the village of Konor-Kofe (population: 2,000) to witness a ceremony in which the village elders dedicated a new water well.
The metropolitan archbishop of Haiti is speaking out following an Oct. 3 massacre by armed gang members in that nation’s central western region, an attack that killed at least 115 and displaced some 6,000.
About five months after Pope Francis spoke of the responsibility political leaders have to ensure that artificial intelligence is used ethically, the University of Notre Dame has announced it will develop faith-based frameworks for ethical uses of the technology.
More than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, but the impressive view from the top of 100-foot-tall bronze structure has been reserved for a select few: cleaners, contractors and restoration experts.
“You have your Lebanon and its dilemma. I have my Lebanon and its beauty.” Those prophetic words were written by Kahlil Gibran in the 1920s, and some believe they may be truer today than ever before.
As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities and subsequent Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip, the papal almoner raised $35,000 in one afternoon from delegates to the Synod on Synodality and immediately sent it to Holy Family Parish in Gaza City.
Several of the new cardinal designates announced by Pope Francis have applauded the increased diversity of those getting a red hat, saying the appointments signal a shift in the center of Catholicism from the West to the global South.
As conflict rages worldwide, 1 million children are set to storm heaven with prayer.
Participants in the ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality have said that while questions surrounding the role of women in the Church are important, they can be distracting from other key issues on the agenda.
