The call to end a U.S. policy that keeps migrants out because of COVID-19 fears has been a constant rallying cry among immigrant advocate circles this summer.
An unpopular immigration policy may end, but not for all
Pew: Catholic homilies mention election, racism less than Protestant ones
As news events made headlines across the United States for months last year — particularly the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic and racism in America — priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers.
Multimillion-dollar maze: Vatican trial to test finance reforms
Vatican prosecutors have indicted 10 individuals and entities, including Di Ruzza and Brülhart, on charges ranging from embezzlement to money laundering and abuse of office.
Pope names relator general for 2023 synod
Pope Francis has chosen Cardinal Hollerich to serve as relator general of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the Vatican announced July 8.
After fever subsides, pope undergoes scans that rule out infection
Recovering from colon surgery, Pope Francis briefly ran a fever late July 7, leading his doctors to perform a CT scan of his abdomen and chest the next morning to check for signs of infection.
N.J. cardinal asks Catholics to sign petition to Congress on Hyde Amendment
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin urged Catholics to go to www.NoTaxpayerAbortion.com and join him in signing this petition before July 16 to send “an urgent message” to Congress to keep the Hyde Amendment.
Haitian church ‘stunned’ by president’s assassination, says bishop
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack in the early hours of July 7 at his home outside of the capital.
Bishop supports apology on papal bulls that justified Indigenous oppression
Bishop Douglas Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century Vatican documents that justified colonization, land takeovers and oppression of Indigenous peoples.