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Little Sisters have big win in Supreme Court decision
The Little Sisters of the Poor had a victory at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, nine years into the religious order’s bouts of litigation over the Obama-era “contraception mandate” which obliged employers to provide for contraceptive coverage...
June 19 marks the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a liturgical feast celebrated on the Friday after Corpus Christi. The devotion to the heart of Jesus has Christ’s unconditional love at...
So, the Vatican’s financial watchdog is getting a name change and new statutes. The Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority will soon be known as the Supervisory and Financial Information...
Conjoined twins can have 'normal lives' after Vatican hospital performs separation surgery
Twins who were conjoined at the head are likely to return home within months from the Vatican’s pediatric hospital where their bodies were successfully separated by doctors, and they have a high chance of living normal lives, the hospital’s chief...
Canadian Catholic diocese aims to repair defaced Stations of the Cross
A Canadian diocese said it will aim to repair six statues whose heads and arms were cut off in an act of vandalism.
The statues were part of a walking Stations of the Cross at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Sudbury, Ontario. Some statues...
Biden condemns forced sterilizations by China
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned China’s forced sterilizations of Uyghur women on Wednesday—nine years after he told a Chinese audience that he was “not second-guessing” the country’s one-child policy.
In a campaign press...
Are Catholic flame wars evangelizing online? Bishop Barron says ‘no’
A California bishop challenged Catholics online to “cut it out” and better represent their Christian faith through their social media engagement.
On Tuesday, Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, issued a “pastoral cry of...
A tale of two Churches: Young African priest ordained in south Italy
Last month three men were ordained to the priesthood in a small city in southern Italy. Among them was Fr. Jerome Pascal Ombeni, a young man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Ombeni, 29, is one of about a dozen seminarians and...
‘Life after ISIS’: Christians are leaving Iraq due to ongoing security concerns
More Christian families left the Nineveh Plains than returned to their hometowns last year amid ongoing security concerns in northern Iraq, according to a recently published report by Aid to the Church in Need.
The report, “Life after ISIS:...
