Pope Francis renewed his call for peace in Ethiopia after a violent conflict in the country’s northern Tigray region left hundreds dead and forced thousands more to flee.

“Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo: Tiempo para nacer y tiempo de morir, tiempo de arrancar y tiempo de plantar, tiempo de destruir y tiempo de construir, tiempo de llorar y tiempo de reír, tiempo de hacer duelo y tiempo de bailar, tiempo de tirar piedras y tiempo de recogerlas, tiempo de abrazarse y tiempo de separarse”.

El título me llamó la atención: ¡”Tú ya no eres mi madre”! El artículo, publicado en inglés por la agencia Reuters un día antes de las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses del 2020, compartía la historia de una madre a quien su hijo ya no le reconocía como tal. La razón: diferencias políticas.

“Today, in the difficult circumstances of a Christmas still overshadowed by the pandemic, we are proposing that young people post on social media a memory, a piece of advice or a ‘gift of wisdom’ they have received from one of the elderly people with whom they have formed a bond in recent months.”

During Advent, we pray about our call to be disciples. But what does “discipleship” mean?

In his homily, Pope Francis said the two key phrases for the Advent season were God’s closeness and people’s vigilance against indifference and mediocrity.

As a historian of the Catholic experience, know well all that it has taken to get the church to this monumental milestone the historic appointment of the first Black cardinal from the U.S.

By Father Kenneth Doyle | Catholic News Service Q. Why is the Pope approving of civil unions for homosexuals? Isn’t this still one of the deadly […]