A Baltimore Circuit judge June 25 acquitted Patrick Brice, 28, in a retrial over whether the injuries he inflicted on pro-life protester Mark Crosby in a May 26, 2023 incident were intentional.
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Science and the stars a call to the spiritual, says Vatican astrophysicist
The Vatican Observatory attests that “science is not against God” — and the nexus of science and spirituality invites humankind to contemplate the Lord’s wondrous works, said a Jesuit astrophysicist.
US bishops’ conference calls for ‘drastic changes’ in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The U.S. bishops’ conference on June 26 reiterated its support for and opposition to various provisions in the budget bill under consideration in the Senate called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Supreme Court rules states can deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 26 that there is not a private right to bring a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s decision to end Planned Parenthood’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program. The ruling will likely allow other states to remove Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs.
Pilgrims of Hope: Walking the Way of St. Francis in the Year of Jubilee
Together “we seek the city to come” – not Baltimore, not Assisi, not even the “eternal city” of Rome – but the City of God, the new Jerusalem. Take courage. We are pilgrims of hope
Surgeon and Men’s Fellowship leader, Dr. Joseph Orlando, remembered for his compassion
Friends and family fondly remembered Dr. Joseph C. Orlando for the motto by which he lived: “to heal the body is to heal the soul.”
Spain: Archbishop calls for unity following outcry over botched restoration of Marian statue
Archbishop José Ángel Saiz Meneses of Seville urged unity among Catholics upset over the recent restoration of a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary known as the Virgin of La Macarena, or Our Lady of Hope of Macarena.
Ceasefire brings some relief, but ‘Gaza is bleeding’ and real peace needed, say experts
Recent strikes exchanged by Israel and Iran, accompanied by June 21 U.S. attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities, sparked fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East.
Painting of St. Rose of Lima is part of Walters Art Museum exhibition
Just in time for the elevation to the papacy of Pope Leo XIV, the American-born cardinal who was for many years a missionary in Peru, the Walters Art Museum is displaying a rare treasure of the Catholic Church in colonial Peru.
Raising hell: Catholics debate church teaching on eternal punishment
Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest’s missionary work is raising hell — but not with the Chinese Communist Party.
Despite secularization trends, a Catholic revival is seen on the horizon in France
Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an “Observatory of Catholicism” was officially launched in June in Paris to produce regular, accurate and reliable data on Catholicism in France, thanks to the work of specialists, based on field surveys.
The fisherman and the pharisee
Peter and Paul could not have been more different from each other. But the liturgical wisdom that brought these two towering saints together in a shared feast underscores the fact that the church needed both the fisherman and the Pharisee — and still does.