via Vatican News: Only by listening to the simplest requests of people and by placing ourselves next to their concrete existential situations, can we be listened to when speaking of higher values”. We are instruments, he said, of God’s love for humanity that is “hungry for bread, for freedom, for justice, for peace, and above… Read More Pope Francis: We Must Not Be Indifferent to the Cry of Hunger

via the Vatican: The Supreme Pontiff Francis, in the audience granted on 11 May 2018 to the undersigned Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has approved the following new draft of no. 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, arranging for it to be translated into various languages and inserted… Read More Catechism Revised: Death Penalty is Inadmissible, Church Committed to Worldwide Abolition

Meghan Clark writes: Readers of Scripture first meet Mary Magdalene during Jesus’ preaching and healing ministry in Galilee as someone healed “from whom seven demons had gone out” (Luke 8:2). Later all the gospels mention her in the litany of women who traveled with Jesus to Jerusalem. All four gospels name her as a witness… Read More Mary Magdalene Persisted

via Vatican News: The Diocese of Rome has opened the process of the beatification and canonization of Father Pedro Arrupe, the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus (SJ) or the Jesuits. “We have seriously begun the process for the beatification of Fr Pedro Arrupe,” current Jesuit Superior General, Father Arturo Sosa announced at… Read More Beatification Process Opened for Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ

via USCCB: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, from the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis has also imposed on Cardinal McCarrick suspension ad divinis and directs him to observe a life of prayer and penance in seclusion until the completion of the canonical process. via Crux: The… Read More Pope Francis Accepts Cardinal McCarrick’s Resignation as Cardinal