“The love for people’s Catholic faith and their Catholic identity abounds in the meetings. It’s so present, and it underlies everything,” said Julia McStravog, a theologian and co-coordinator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ team for the continental phase of the synod.
When Pope Benedict came to the United States for a visit to Washington and New York spanning six days in mid-April 2008, some news accounts called the pace of his schedule “grueling.”
President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
The United States, which has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for 16 years, will make a new push to bring peace to the Central Asian country by increasing its military presence by about 4,000 soldiers to go with the 8,400 troops, 5,000 allied personnel and 26,000 contractors now there.
The Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S. is a 13-year-old agreement between the United States and Canada on treatment of refugees.
This is a book of good news about “places in the Catholic Church where creativity, vision and devotion have the traction to move the mission of Jesus Christ forward.
In this excellent, well-written and highly readable book, Russell Shaw presents the stories of 15 famous Catholics.
Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city and once known as its jewel, sits in rubble, but more tragically so do its people.
