Monsignor Ratzinger, retired pope’s brother, dies at 96 July 1, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, a musician and retired Pope Benedict XVI’s elder brother, died July 1 at the age of 96.
Court says religious schools should not be excluded from tax credit program June 30, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court said the exclusion of religious schools in Montana’s state scholarship aid program violated the federal Constitution.
U.S. Catholic media must inspire unity amid division, pope says June 30, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholic media outlets in the United States are called to break down barriers that prevent dialogue and honest communication between people and communities, Pope Francis said.
Catholic leaders denounce court’s rejection of federal death penalty appeal June 30, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, World News When the Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to be used in their upcoming executions, a longtime advocate against capital punishment said the court “abdicated its legal and moral responsibilities.”
San Francisco archbishop leads prayer, blesses site of toppled Serra statue June 29, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Several dozen people joined San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as he led the rosary June 27 and recited the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel for protection from evil at the site of the now-toppled statue of St. Junipero Serra in the city’s Golden Gate Park.
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion law June 29, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News In a 5-4 decision June 29, the Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals could not stand.
Asylum at the border is ‘effectively over,’ El Paso bishop says June 29, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News After visiting a group of pregnant migrant women on the Mexico side of the border, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, issued strong words June 25 about the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program and other restrictive immigration measures, saying that turning away those seeking asylum in the U.S. amounts to sending them to their death.
Trump’s order on foster care backs partnerships with faith-based agencies June 26, 2020By Julie Asher Filed Under: News, World News President Donald Trump June 24 called for creating partnerships between state agencies and public, private, faith-based and community organizations “to help keep families together and, when that is not possible, to find children forever families.”
Catechesis is about a relationship, not just information, Vatican says June 25, 2020By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Faith Formation, News, World News Teaching the faith is a work of evangelization meant to lead people to a deeper relationship with Jesus and not just impart information, said the updated “Directory for Catechesis.”
Bishops praise Bolivians who seize drug-trafficking plane at airstrip June 24, 2020By Barbara J. Fraser Filed Under: News, World News Bishops in Bolivia’s Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip.
Catholic faith shapes Phil Klay and bestselling war author’s writing June 23, 2020By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Afghanistan, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, World News “I think a Catholic worldview inflects how I think about sin, about fallibility, about ritual and community and suffering, about being a physical body in the world, but also about being more than mere matter,” Phil Klay said.
Young people call DACA ruling good news, but know battle not over June 23, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Hispanic Ministry, News, World News On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling said President Donald Trump could not stop the program with his 2017 executive order.
