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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria Wiering |Kurt Jensen |Paul Jeffrey |Greg Hardesty
The heart is where a person can integrate his or her life amid a fragmented world, and the source of a heart's mending and life is "the mystery of the heart of Christ," said Bishop Daniel E.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Greg Hardesty |Gina Christian
ROME — When it comes to the much-hyped Jubilee Year of 2025, the raw truth of the matter is that many Roman hotel owners, apartment renters, restauranteurs, and cab drivers today find themselves asking some version of the following question: “If a jubilee year fell upon Rome but no one was there to see or hear it, is it actually happening?” The depressing headline of one recent piece on the Italian website “L’agenzia di viaggi” (“Travel Agency”) sums up the verdict in some circles so far:...
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Greg Hardesty |Gina Christian
On weekends in April, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Santa Barbara has been going blue. To mark Child Abuse Prevention Month, blue lights illuminate the church’s exterior and blue ribbons decorate trees and doors of the parish, which is located on the east side of the city and has a predominantly Spanish-speaking congregation of some 3,000 families.
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1 month ago | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Greg Hardesty
Hotly contested mayoral elections grab local headlines and the attention of area voters. But the man sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office is watching too. That’s the gist of a recently published study by two USC Price School of Public Policy scholars that highlights how presidents from both parties strategically use federal funds to assist mayoral candidates who share their political affiliation and aims.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Fredrick Nzwili |Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching. A form of artificial reproductive technology, IVF unites a woman's eggs and a man's sperm outside of their respective bodies in a laboratory setting, with one or more embryonic children selected for implantation in the woman's uterus, and the remaining embryonic children either destroyed or frozen indefinitely. Trump's Feb.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Fredrick Nzwili |Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
As the United States paused foreign assistance to countries across the world, confusion, panic and desperation has gripped many organizations that benefit from the funds, including church-based groups. Be it clinics for antiretroviral treatment, rural community water projects or even remote or city slum schools feeding programs, Catholic organizations were direct or indirect beneficiaries of the support delivered through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria-Pia Negro Chin |Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the bishops called this suspension "unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees," The Associated Press first reported.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
The morning after the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis has double pneumonia, the director of the Vatican press office said the pope had a restful night at Rome's Gemelli hospital. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, told reporters early Feb. 19 that the pope slept peacefully, woke up and had breakfast. A CT scan Feb. 18 "demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy," according to the previous evening's medical bulletin.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria Wiering |Fredrick Nzwili |Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will begin in Indianapolis May 18 and travel through 10 states before reaching Los Angeles June 22. The 3,300-mile St. Katharine Drexel Route has stops planned in 20 dioceses and four Eastern Catholic eparchies across Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
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2 months ago | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Greg Hardesty
There’s the Los Angeles most outsiders think about: palm trees, beaches and celebrities. Then there’s the L.A. behind the postcard. That’s the L.A. that Terri Batch focuses on. As chief executive of the startup Global LA, a public-private nonprofit partnership, her role is to attract foreign business investment in the City of Angels.
