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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | David Agren |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
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(OSV News) -- La policía y los paramilitares mantuvieron una fuerte presencia fuera de la catedral nicaragüense de Managua el Domingo de Ramos, asegurándose de que las celebraciones tuvieran lugar en su totalidad en la propiedad de la iglesia -- y enviando un mensaje no tan sutil de intimidación. Dentro de la catedral, el cardenal Leopoldo Brenes de Managua no le prestó atención a este acoso. Centró su homilía en el perdón.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kate Scanlon |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- El 10 de abril, los obispos de EE.UU. dijeron a los legisladores del Congreso que apoyan la legislación bipartidista que aliviaría algunas restricciones de migración a los trabajadores religiosos de otros países, permitiéndoles permanecer en los EE.UU. mientras esperan la residencia permanente.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kate Scanlon |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Un juez federal se negó el 11 de abril a bloquear la administración Trump de llevar a cabo acciones de Inmigración y Aduanas en lo que se consideran áreas sensibles (o protegidas), incluyendo iglesias y otras casas de culto.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Justin Mclellan |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Llevar la cruz significa más que soportar el sufrimiento personal: significa entrar en el dolor de los demás y caminar a su lado, escribió el Papa Francisco al comienzo de la Semana Santa. Llevar la cruz nunca es en vano, escribió en su homilía de la Misa del Domingo de Ramos en la Plaza de San Pedro el 13 de abril. Más aún, es la manera más concreta de compartir su amor salvífico.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Justin Mclellan |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay movements following decades of abuse allegations and internal investigations.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Cindy Wooden |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to recover his physical strength, the Vatican press office said, but he also is increasing the number of private meetings he is holding with the heads of Vatican offices.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Justin Mclellan |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week. "To carry the cross of Christ is never in vain," he wrote in his homily for Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square April 13.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Kate Scanlon |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge on April 11 declined to block the Trump administration from carrying out Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions at what are seen as sensitive locations, including houses of worship.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Jonathan Luxmoore |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Michael Pakaluk
(OSV News) -- Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline across the traditionally Catholic country. "Public opinion is unanimous -- this site is not to be touched," said Polonia Castellanos Flórez, president of Abogados Cristianos, a foundation of Christian lawyers.
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1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Carol Glatz |Michael Pakaluk
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ROME (CNS) -- Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is "a scandal," said Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits. The Jesuits, the largest men's religious community in the world, are actively involved with their mission partners in accompanying migrants, refugees and asylum seekers because "this is the message of the Gospel," he told reporters April 10.
