via Vatican News: The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the XV General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops taking place in October 2018 will be “Young people, faith and vocational discernment.”… Describing the theme “as an expression of the Church’s pastoral concern for the young,” the statement said the chosen topic follows on… Read More Pope Francis: Theme for the 2018 Synod Will Be on Young People
Pope Francis recently spoke about using prayer, rather than alcohol or other drugs, in response to spiritual desolation: Spiritual desolation is something that happens to all of us: it can be stronger or weaker … but that feeling of spiritual darkness, of hopelessness, mistrust, lacking the desire to live, without seeing the end of the… Read More Pope Francis on Overcoming Spiritual Desolation
Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles has released a video supporting Proposition 62, the California measure to repeal the death penalty:
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Single by Default by Jessica Keating: “Perhaps my single life, like so many others, is not a vocation. Yet I am also called to holiness today, now, here.” What Assad and Putin are doing in Syria “is not counter-terrorism. It is barbarism.” by Jennifer Williams: “There… Read More Around the Web
John Kenneth White is a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America, who has written extensively on the American party system, elections, and the US presidency. His most recent book is What Happened to the Republican Party?: And What It Means for American Presidential Politics. Millennial writer Daniel Petri and editor Robert Christian asked… Read More Trump is the ‘Most Flawed Candidate Ever’: An Interview with John Kenneth White
Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: Instead of using his visit to America to strictly lecture politicians and the public about the moral failures of a nation that has drifted far from upholding Catholic ideals about life and family, Francis offered us something to aspire to. In pointing to… Read More Pope Francis Delivered Inspiration, Not Lectures in the US
via Zenit: His Excellency Reuven Rivlin President of the State of Israel I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of His Excellency Shimon Peres, and I wish to convey to you and to all the people of Israel my heartfelt condolences. I fondly recall my time with Mr Peres at the Vatican and… Read More Pope Francis’ Telegram to Israel on the Passing of Shimon Peres
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