News
Templeton winner hopes L’Arche communities ‘may become sign of peace’
Jean Vanier, a Catholic author and theologian who founded L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize.
Vanier cites St. Therese of Lisieux, Gandhi as spiritual role models
In 1964, when Jean Vanier quietly began what would become an international network, he had "no idea that this would be a revolutionary reality ... that it would grow," he remarked joyfully.
Measures aim to protect religious liberty of child welfare providers
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, have introduced companion bills titled the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015.
Bishop hails override of governor’s veto of bill to protect unborn
Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston praised the West Virginia Legislature for passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, making West Virginia the 11th state to pass such legislation.
In new interview, pope talks about his safety, politics, virtual relationships
After residents of an Argentine shantytown started their own newspaper, they wondered if they could interview Pope Francis. They scored the exclusive when a priest visiting the Vatican asked the pope, and he agreed.
Today’s teaching on the family
See the daily excerpt from the preparatory catechesis for the 2015 World Meeting of Families, “Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.”
Creamy good fun for a good cause
World Meeting of Families planners and students of St. Peter the Apostle School chose their favorite milkshakes in Philadelphia on Monday. Proceeds from sales of the treats will support the event.
Minimum wage, wage theft among issues of concern to Iowa Catholics
Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City joined Archbishop Michael O. Jackels of Dubuque and Bishops Martin J. Amos of Davenport and Richard E. Pates of Des Moines in meeting with Iowa lawmakers on issues of interest to the state's Catholics.
Syrian refugee crisis has reached ‘tipping point,’ say USCCB officials
"Without more international support, we will find Syrians fleeing extremists being turned away and forced back to danger," said Anastasia Brown, interim executive director for USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services.
Pope Francis gets a better-than-fair shake
A top Vatican official and planner for the World Meeting of Families, plus students of St. Peter School, picked a special milkshake on Monday that the pope might love when he visits the city in September.