Prosecutors challenge medical report finding McCarrick not competent to stand trial
byBy Damien Fisher DEDHAM, Mass. — Prosecutors are challenging the medical report claiming former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on…
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‘We are children of the Resurrection,’ say participants in Middle East Continental Synodal Assembly
byBy Doreen Abi Raad BEIRUT — As the continental phase of the synod travels across the globe in February and March with sessions in…
Tesla union labor battle shows need for church’s leadership and teaching voice
byBy Kimberley Heatherington In 1891, the same year Pope Leo XIII responded to revolutionary economic and industrial upheaval with the encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” the…
Dominicans invite Catholics to join 9-month rosary novena and D.C. pilgrimage
byBy Katie Yoder WASHINGTON — The Dominicans are inviting Catholics nationwide to participate in a nine-month novena that will culminate with a day-long rosary…
Missionary sister says God told her to remain ‘peacefully patient’ during captivity in Burkina Faso
byBy Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS — Around Christmas 2021, Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, then supervising her congregation’s medical clinic in Yalgo, Burkina Faso,…
Dialogue, not revenge, must prevail in the Holy Land, pope says
byBy Justin McLellan VATICAN CITY — Rather than foment hate and seek revenge, Palestinians and Israelis need to engage in dialogue in the pursuit…
Pope Francis will travel to Hungary at end of April
byBy Justin McLellan VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will travel to Hungary April 28-30 where he will meet with government officials, refugees, academic scholars…
Make time this Lent to love the excluded, defenseless, despised, pope says
byBy Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — The call to make sacrifices for others out of love remains urgent as so many people continue to…
As UN debates Mideast conflict, Israeli-Palestinian orchestra models peace in concert
byBy James Martone UNITED NATIONS — At the United Nations headquarters in New York, international diplomats debated ways of peacefully resolving the intensifying Palestinian-Israeli…
Discovery of ‘Pilgrimage Road’ reveals archaeologists’ race against time in Jerusalem
byBy Tom Tracy JERUSALEM — One of Israel’s leading archaeologists working on the Pilgrimage Road excavation near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount said that with so…