Working with migrants is taking them and integrating them with education, with job placement, with all these things,” the pope said May 25.
Pope: Migrants seek a welcome, not handouts
Regis University gives shelter to people on last step to permanent housing
58 fishing tents form their own community on the Jesuit-run Regis University grounds, with access to electricity and Wi-Fi and currently housing 60 people in the initiative “Safe Outdoor Space”.
Students share joys, concerns about church at synod listening sessions
In early April, nearly 50 college students from across the Archdiocese of Philadelphia gathered at La Salle University for a cross-campus listening session as part of the first phase of the global “Synod on Synodality.”
Bishop John M. Botean: Ecumenical dimensions of synodality
It is by “looking around” that we can best “look within” in the process of becoming a more synodal church.
Pope to set date for canonizations at consistory
Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonization of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, founder of the Scalabrinian missionaries, dispensing the requirement of a miracle attributed to his intercession, the Vatican announced.
Pope calls for united efforts in care for creation during Laudato Si’ Week
Pope Francis has invited everyone to take part in Laudato Si’ Week May 22-29. “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” was the title of the pope’s 2015 encyclical on the environment.
Cardinals, theologians discuss decision-making role of laity in Church
As the Catholic Church continues to reflect on synodality through a two-year process of listening and dialogue, a panel of six notable theologians and canonists discussed the nature of consultation and decision-making in a synodal church.
Catholics with disabilities share their vision of a synodal church
The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, sponsored a two-hour session May 19 with representatives of bishops’ conferences and international Catholic associations to hear directly from Catholic with disabilities, “who are often on the margins of our churches.”