Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart in Australia released the four-page document titled “We are Salt to the Earth” on May 2.
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform provides resources for the Church to achieve real and lasting solutions to environmental problems.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito challenged graduates at Franciscan University to embrace vital life lessons about courage and personal values.
Officials from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discussed problems that could come up in examining apparitions in November 1974.
Handy and eight other pro-life activists were convicted nine months ago on felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violation of the FACE Act.
The Vatican released the message ahead of the fourth World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, which takes place on July 28 this year.
“The world is silent in front of the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Tawakkol Karman said on Saturday at the Vatican.
Catholic bishops should be more like St. Damien of Molokai and less concerned about what civil and cultural leaders think about them, Butker said.
The president of the German Bishops’ Conference has called Germany — a nation whose history is entangled with the Catholic Church — a “mission country.”
A priest in Chicago has apologized for the way in which he blessed a same-sex couple in April, calling it a “very poor decision.”
Bishop Robert Pipta of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, dedicated a shrine and an icon at Wyoming Catholic College.
Large majorities of Catholics use birth control, which experts say is “a crisis of catechesis within the Church.”