Camillo Barone

1 week ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Michael Sean Winters

Dr. Greg Shay knew he might not return alive from Gaza. His wife Linda begged him not to go. His children staged an intervention over the phone, their voices heavy with desperation. The 70-year-old retired San Francisco pediatric pulmonologist decided he had no choice. The Israel-Hamas war had cut off desperately needed medicine for young Gazan cystic fibrosis patients. The doctors he had trained there a few years ago felt abandoned. He had to go back.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Christopher White |Camillo Barone

In this image released by Vatican Media, Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair at the end of a Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 6, 2025, part of the Jubilee of the sick and the health workers. (Vatican Media via AP) Vatican City — April 6, 2025 Pope Francis made a brief surprise appearance at the end of a Mass in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, marking his first public event following his 38-day hospitalization for double pneumonia.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Gustavo Arellano |Camillo Barone

In 2021, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill to provide a two-year window to allow sex abuse survivors to file civil lawsuits, no matter the statute of limitations. It came in the wake of a 2018 state grand jury report that found more than 300 Catholic clergy in Pennsylvania had abused more than 1,000 victims since the 1940s. The legislation still had to pass through the state senate, then have voters approve it as a ballot initiative before it became law.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |James V. Grimaldi

National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent Christopher White will be joining Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life in July 2025 as associate director for strategic engagement and a senior fellow. White, an award-winning journalist with extensive experience covering the U.S. and global Catholic Church, has spent the past four years reporting from the Vatican for NCR.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Yonat Shimron

Harvard Divinity School announced last week it was pausing its Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative, a program that focused on Israel-Palestine as a case study. On Wednesday (April 2), it cut the last remaining position in the initiative. Hilary Rantisi, the associate director of the program, said she was told her position will not be renewed. She is also the sole Palestinian American staff member at the divinity school. Her last day is at the end of June. She did not comment further.