Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio referred in his statement to the call to action from Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman, one of six Black Catholic women and men proposed for sainthood.

Cardinal Pell died of a heart attack Jan. 10 at a Rome hospital after undergoing hip surgery. He was 81. His burial was scheduled for Feb. 2 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, where he had served as archbishop before Pope Francis chose him as prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.

“We couldn’t leave those poor people alone,” Orionine Sister Renata Jurczak said. “We had to help them.”

The FDA announced early January that under its modified Mifepristone REMS Program, patients will be able to acquire Mifeprex — and its approved generic — at retail pharmacies.

Henri Nouwen “speaks of the human brokenness of the church, which presents the broken body of Christ to the world. Human promises are broken; God’s promise ‘stands unshaken.'”

“That’s where every human being lives: doubt in tension with faith, despair in tension with hope, hardness in tension with charity.”

Both St. Bernadette and the shrine have been the focus of numerous films, but the 2019 documentary ‘Lourdes’ — set to debut in U.S. theaters Feb. 8-9 — takes a closer look at some of those who journey to the shrine seeking relief.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) — more picturesquely referred to as a “green comet” because of its glowing green, icy nucleus — passes its closest to Earth on Feb. 2.