via Vatican News: Cardinal Marc Ouellet writes to “his fellow brother”, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, responding to his accusations according to his own personal knowledge and documents in the archive of the Congregation for Bishops, and asks him to return to full communion with the Successor of Peter. Here are some highlights: Your current position… Read More Card. Ouellet: Vigano’s “Political Maneuver” against Pope is Deplorable, Blasphemous, Unjustified

via Washington Post: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to two people who have brought attention to ending sexual violence against women in armed conflict. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist treating victims of gang rape, and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi who has spoken about her own suffering at the hands of the Islamic… Read More Denis Mukwege and 2016 Millennial of the Year Nadia Murad Win Nobel Peace Prize

After attending “A Moral Economy: Faith and the Free Market,” an event that included Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Griffin Oleynick interviews event moderator and Washington Post columnist Christine Emba in the second episode of Commonweal’s new podcast. You can listen here:

via AP: Pope Francis warned against historic revisionism and any rebirth of anti-Semitism that fueled the Holocaust as he marked the annual remembrance Sunday for Lithuania’s centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during World War II. Francis began his second day in the Baltics in Lithuania’s second city, Kaunas, where an estimated 3,000… Read More Pope Warns against ‘New Seeds’ of Anti-Semitism