Known as the Catholic Native Boarding School Accountability and Healing Project, or AHP, the effort is helping church institutions learn about their past and aiding Native American communities fill holes in their ancestral history.

A statement from the conference said the archives of the doctrinal congregation will allow the bishops “to know and analyze, quantitatively and qualitatively, the data kept at the congregation while ensuring the appropriate confidentiality.”

The presence of the Christian community is indispensable to the identity of Jerusalem, considered holy by all three Abrahamic faiths, several European bishops said at the end of a visit to the Holy Land.

The Ascension of the Lord

First reading: Acts 1:1-11
Second reading: Eph 1:17-23 or Heb 9:24-38; 10:19-23
Gospel: Jn 24:46-53

“Even as we offer solidarity through lament and prayer, we refuse to accept a world in which thoughts and prayers are offered without meaningful policy change to address the crisis of gun violence in this country,” said the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in a May 25 statement.

According to Oklahoma’s new abortion law, which is among the nation’s strictest, abortion “does not include the use, prescription, administration, procuring or selling of Plan B, morning-after pills, or any other type of contraception or emergency contraception.”

arios obispos de Estados Unidos se pronunciaron en contra del fácil acceso a armas en el país tras un ataque el 24 de mayo que resultó en la muerte de al menos 19 niños y dos de sus maestros de escuela primaria en Uvalde, Texas.

La Suprema Corte de Justicia en México ratificó una norma que obliga a las secretarías de salud estatales a facilitar el acceso al aborto en caso de violación e incesto.