Society now has a better understanding of the need to reach out to gangs and gang members, said Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, who has ministered to gang youth in Los Angeles for decades.
Like most Catholics, I was baptized into the Church as a little child. I therefore consider myself to be one of the very fortunate people on this earth to have been given this precious gift early on in life. The question that seems more fitting for me, then, is: “Why do I remain Catholic”?
As Hurricane Fiona swept across the Caribbean, leaving behind numerous victims and material destruction, Pope Francis called for greater solidarity in assisting all those affected.
Standing near a mass grave site in eastern Ukraine and seeing the delicate and solemn removal of bodies, Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, said he could only pray.
For two weeks in October, the facade of St. Peter's Basilica will be the screen for the nighttime showing of a short film about the life, the call and the ministry of St. Peter.
While the report summarizing tens of thousands of U.S. listening sessions in the first phase of the Catholic Church's synodal process has been submitted to the Vatican, the experience of synodality is just beginning.