During the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops’ spring general assembly held virtually June 16-18, the big challenge looming over the bishops was clear from the start: staying united among themselves in the face of sharp ...
Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller shares the vocation stories of four families, all who share the common denominator of holy orders. The Wertin family has two sons that are priests, and after the death of their mother, ...
A proposed document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church" received a thorough airing during the second day of U.S. bishops' spring general assembly. For more than two hours June ...
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 17 decision handed Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia (CSS) a 9-0 victory, the Court sidestepped an important question about the strength of the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee. As ...
Responding to the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a Catholic adoption and foster care agency in Philadelphia to only place children in households with a mother and father, Monsignor Owen F. Campion writes that ...
In a major religious liberty ruling that gives religious groups timely new protection against state coercion, the Supreme Court held unanimously that the government cannot penalize a Catholic foster care agency for refusing to place ...
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops urged unity in an address June 16, the first day of the prelates' three-day spring plenary assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "I know ...
Monsignor Charles Pope answers a question about what languages Jesus spoke, particularly if he knew Latin. Monsignor Pope explains that “The daily language of Jesus would surely have been Aramaic. The ancient Hebrew of the ...
On the agenda for this week’s assembly of U.S. bishops is a discussion about how the Church should address “Eucharistic coherence.” Central to this discussion is how the bishops can help the faithful foster a ...
Timothy O’Malley prepares us for the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time by reminding us that amid the chaos, to find our way to a safe harbor, we must cry out to the Lord. He writes: ...
