New book long interview with Pope Francis out this week

Celebrating eight years as the Pope...

New film ‘Minari’ is a deeply Christian reflection on failure

There should be no confusion re the moral calculus of differing COVID shots. The Holy See’s authoritative Note on the matter (21 December) did not indulge in hair-splitting some have since attempted

But there is, both legally and financially, no single entity that is the “US Roman Catholic Church.” Nearly each of the nation’s 17,000 parishes operates as its own nonprofit, and weekly donations help to employ the priest, along with the employees who maintain the parish and its ministries.

U.S. Bishops’ Education Chairman Applauds Bipartisan Legislation Honoring Contributions of Catholic Schools

The official news agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops celebrates 100 years of publications. See the short YouTube (with subtitles for translation) video of this encounter. Pope calls for dialogue and not division in U.S. Church

At Georgetown panel on US church’s relations with the 2d Catholic POTUS, San Diego’s Bishop McElroy – a figure both close to +Gomez & on Pope’s radar – says USCCB’s Day One slam of Biden over abortion risks “reducing the common good to a single issue.”

WASHINGTON (CNS) — In what may be an all-time high, President Joe Biden has nominated nine Catholics to serve in his Cabinet.

At his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

ROME – Among the many traditions surrounding a presidential inauguration, Catholics seem to have created one of their own, especially when it’s a Democrat: Mixed messages from the Vatican and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.