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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kimberley A. Heatherington |Lucia Silecchia |Jenna Cooper
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(OSV News) -- While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn't seem like a pontiff to say, "I told you so."But maybe he did.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria Wiering |Kimberley A. Heatherington
Catholics are encouraged to turn out in strong numbers for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage's Eucharistic processions to counter the growing number of anti-Catholic protesters who have afflicted the route's public events from the first week. "We need to be there. We need to show up for Jesus," said Jason Shanks, president of National Eucharistic Congress Inc. "This is the Way-of-the-Cross type of pilgrimage.
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2 weeks ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Kimberley A. Heatherington |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
(OSV News) ─ "We are not living an era of change," said Pope Francis in November 2015, "but a change of era."Since the late pontiff addressed his words to a national conference of the Italian Catholic Church almost a decade ago, the pace of that change has perceptibly accelerated, with rapid developments in artificial intelligence in the headlines seemingly continuous and even dizzying. An awareness of that reality could elicit many responses, including anxiety and indecision.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Ken Stone |Kimberley A. Heatherington
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, a philosopher renowned for his study of virtue-based ethics, and his work across the disciplines of philosophy, theology and politics, died May 21 at age 96. For MacIntyre, ethics and morality weren't merely a dusty collection of abstract rules, but a living tradition meant to vigorously inform and guide the individual and collective pursuit of the common good.
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4 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Barron |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Hannah Brockhaus |Cindy Wooden
As some of you perhaps know, I was in Rome earlier this month, providing commentary for various news networks who were covering the papal conclave. It was a fascinating, exhausting, and exhilarating seven days! And it culminated, to everyone’s astonishment, with the election of a pope from America, indeed from my own hometown of Chicago. Because I was moving from network to network, I spent a lot of time driving around Rome, going from pillar to post.
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4 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Hannah Brockhaus |Cindy Wooden
The title of a new study released April 28 by the Ethics and Public Policy Center is one Catholics, following the church's moral teaching, would agree upon: "The Abortion Pill Harms Women." "Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means," states the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "is gravely contrary to the moral law." But it is the second part of the EPPC study title -- "Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event" -- that...
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1 month ago | 
catholiccourier.com | Kimberley A. Heatherington |Gina Capellazzi
(OSV News) — It’s one of those moments — certainly for Catholics, and often for those who are not — when people remember where they were, and what they were doing at the announcement of a new pope. As white smoke finally poured from the intensely watched temporary chimney secured atop the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel — while the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica rang out in Rome — a sort of pious pandemonium broke out. And not just in the Eternal City.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Tom Hoffarth |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Ad rem
After videos of people scraping their keys across certain electric vehicles, the other most popular images on social media these days seem to be those of “street preachers,” either standing in the commons of some institution of higher learning, or on a street corner. The street-corner variety almost always seems to be at night, and in a rough part of town. None of the preachers seem to be Catholic. I have mixed feelings about that.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Robert Brennan |Kimberley A. Heatherington
Since he became a priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles 27 years ago, Father John Kyebasuuta marvels at what has changed — and what remains the same — every time he makes his annual trip to the Ugandan village where he grew up. On one trip to his hometown on Buvuma Island in Africa’s famous Lake Victoria 10 years ago, Kyebasuuta was struck by the sight of a small boy struggling with a heavy container of water that he drew from a borehole miles away to help his family.
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1 month ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kimberley A. Heatherington |Elizabeth Scalia |Lucia Silecchia |Greg Kandra
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(OSV News) -- "God," Pope Francis once said, "is God for all; and if God is God for all, then we are all sons and daughters of God."This credo, spoken during a 2024 interreligious meeting in Singapore -- with almost 600 young people of varying beliefs in attendance -- seemed to run through Pope Francis' approach to interfaith relations during his 12-year pontificate.
