Jane Greer

Nov 13, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Jane Greer

Efforts to slow climate change and mitigate its impact, particularly on the poor, are being thwarted by selfishness, the Vatican secretary of state told world leaders at the COP29 climate conference. Representing Pope Francis at the conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, Cardinal Pietro Parolin told the leaders that their Nov.

Nov 13, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Jane Greer

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say "yes" to God's plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said. "Let us learn from her to be docile to the inspirations of the Spirit, especially when he suggests to us to 'arise in haste' and go to help someone who needs us, just as she did immediately after the angel left her," setting out to visit her cousin Elizabeth, the pope said Nov. 13.

Nov 13, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Jonathan Liedl |Jane Greer |Lauretta Brown |Gretchen R. Crowe

The U.S. bishops are taking a wait-and-see approach to what President-elect Donald Trump does with his campaign promise to carry out mass deportation of immigrants who are in the country illegally. But the bishops say they are prepared to speak out forcefully if Trump does advance the controversial proposal in a way that undermines human dignity.

Nov 13, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Lauretta Brown |Gretchen R. Crowe |Jane Greer |Simon Caldwell

The public session of the fall plenary assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened Nov. 12 with remarks from Archbishop Timothy P.

Sep 4, 2024 | catholicworldreport.com | Jane Greer |Catherine Harmon

Detail from "The Fates Gathering in the Stars" (1887) by Elihu Vedder. (Image: Wikipedia Commons)The epigraph in George David Clark’s latest collection, Newly Not Eternal, is Ecclesiastes 3:10-11: “I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time.” The collection explores suffering, God, and beauty—and God and beauty always win. Clark has found his way through suffering to make, with God, poems that are abundantly beautiful and hopeful.