The faith steered Albert’s conscience and servant leadership throughout his life as organizations such as the Knights of Columbus recognized in him a man of virtue and commitment to the faith.
How Belgium’s Catholic king led nation through WWI and its darkest days
U.S. bishops launch new approach to teaching the faith
This new outreach will involve catechetical publishers working directly with the USCCB on new ways to pass on the faith using digital tools and aiming to reach a more diverse church.
Despair over declining numbers shows lack of faith, pope tells religious
ging or declining membership should prompt members of religious orders to ask, “What do we do?” but not to despair, Pope Francis said.
Religious leaders must build community, unity, peace, pope says
“It is our duty to encourage and assist our human family — interdependent yet at the same time disconnected — to sail the sea together,” the pope said Nov. 4
Pope encourages Bahrain’s Catholic community to be ‘builders of unity’
For the last stop of his four-day journey, Pope Francis chose to visit Sacred Heart Church, which was consecrated in 1939 and was the first church built in a Gulf nation.
Pope tells young people: Skip Google, search God first for advice
Everyone needs help to mature and to grow as a person of faith, Pope Francis told young people in Bahrain, so reach out to someone a bit older and wiser and don’t forget to pray.
Women must be included in formation of priests, says abuse expert
One of the church’s leading experts on safeguarding and clerical sexual abuse has said the exclusion of women from seminary formation has had “extremely harmful consequences,” and this “needs to change.”
Questions of faith: Vatican project sends theologians to ‘the margins’
A Vatican office sent dozens of theologians and pastoral workers to refugee camps, prisons, shelters, street corners and markets in 40 cities and towns on every continent to listen to the faith experiences and, especially, the faith questions of people often tossed aside or ignored by society and even the Catholic Church.