via Vatican News: “Many times we hear some saying, ‘I don’t hurt anyone.’ That’s fine,” the Pope said. “But do you do good?” Pope Francis said many people “do not do evil, but neither do they do any good”. These people pass their lives “in indifference, apathy, and lukewarmness.” He said this attitude of simply… Read More It’s Evil Not to Do Good

Christine Emba writes: No more wild-eyed claims that 9/11 was a hoax, that the government was behind the Sandy Hook shooting or that the Parkland kids are “crisis actors.” No more spittle-flecked speculation about “white genocide” or how chemtrails are used for population control. Now, if you want to learn more about how the “New… Read More Why Banning Alex Jones from Social Media Sites Isn’t a Problem

Millennial Catholic Michael Bayer has a new article in Catholic News Service’s “In Light of Faith” series: — Authenticity: Young people have access to more information than our ancestors dreamed possible. We are inundated by ceaseless digital interactions and immersed in a sea of competing ideas…. And we hunger for a church that can name… Read More Three Traits Young People Crave from the Church

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