En una conferencia anual de Washington sobre las Américas el 4 de mayo, el secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Alejandro Mayorkas, dijo que cuatro familias migrantes que permanecieron separadas bajo una política de la administración Trump estarían entre las primeras en ser reunidas a principios de mayo por la administración Biden.

Several Rome-based artisans who work in the Catholic sphere indicated that even if the pandemic were to disappear in a miraculous instant, the traditional trades still face an uphill struggle to stay profitable.

In the early 1900s, the American Catholic moral theologian, Father John Ryan, developed an agenda for labor justice “that entailed neither violent revolution nor overthrow of the market system.”

Sixth Sunday of Easter

First reading: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Second reading: 1 Jn 4:7-10
Gospel: Jn 14:23

The colorful induction ceremony of new recruits is traditionally held May 6 to mark the date in 1527 when 147 Swiss Guards lost their lives defending Pope Clement VII in the Sack of Rome.

The efforts by some U.S. bishops to exclude Catholic politicians — including President Joe Biden — from receiving Communion is being called the weaponization of the Eucharist and use as a tool in political warfare.

After international outcry following moves that consolidated power over El Salvador into the hands of the president, the Central American country’s Catholic bishops expressed worry and urged lawmakers to guide citizens into a “truly democratic state.”

A 70-minute documentary about a primatologist’s highly unusual interaction with the species of the title is recounted and partly dramatized in “Lucy, the Human Chimp.”