1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1409+ words) Bishop Robert Boxie III sat down with Catholic News Service in Rome on Sept. 7 and answered a question that American Catholics have spent decades tiptoeing around: why does the Church in the United States have so few Black bishops? “The…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1082+ words) Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the family of Welles Crowther on Tuesday, standing on the Ellipse beside a 21-foot steel beam pulled from the South Tower, with Welles’s mother, Alison, and his sister Paige accepting on…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (610+ words) The late Mark Shields once said that strong institutions seek converts and weak institutions punish heretics. Put another way, are we spending our time and energy making our communities bigger and more vibrant or smaller and more rigid? Pope Francis…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1409+ words) Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples has written the preface to a new Italian book on transgender people, and Outreach, the LGBTQ Catholic ministry founded by Father James Martin, published the English translation on Thursday. The book, Persone transgender: Scienze, teologie,…...