Catholic writer Ellen Gable Hrkach’s latest book “Life From the Bottom Shelf” (Full Quiver Publishing) is a bit of a departure from her traditional writing canon. Detailing the lifelong struggles of someone, shall we say, “vertically challenged,” the book shares the ups and downs of being short-statured in a tall world.
Scott Surette, a devout Catholic and longtime owner of a home inspection firm, is on a mission to help renew the church as one of several recent appointees to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board.
A former Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Sante Fe, New Mexico, ended his life ahead of a May 24 hearing on criminal charges of sexual abuse.
A global network begun by women religious in the 1990s to assist victims and fight sex trafficking laid the groundwork for young people in Rome to film a promotional video promoting awareness.
The Vatican’s United Nations mission condemned in remarks to the U.N. Security Council what it said was a worldwide increase in violence against women, and a decline in women’s involvement in the decision-making process.
The health care department was mandated in 2019 to create a special office to offer victim assistance, starting with a “listening service” and including psychological, medical and social support.
Here is a collection of notable quotes from Pope Benedict XVI from homilies, documents, messages and speeches from 2005 to 2013, the years he served as pope.
Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, and the late Bishop Clément Fecteau, who served as bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, were named in an 11-page victims’ list recently made public by the Arsenault Dufresne Wee law firm.
