via Pope Francis’ address at the World Youth Day Prayer Vigil with young people: But in life there is another, even more dangerous, kind of paralysis. It is not easy to put our finger on it. I like to describe it as the paralysis that comes from confusing happiness with a sofa. In other words,… Read More Pope Francis: Get Up Off the Sofa and Build a Better World
That sports may be the practice of human dignity turned into a vehicle of fraternity.
via Jessica Masulli Reyes, The News Journal: In a landmark decision, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional. A 148-page opinion released Tuesday afternoon said that the current law is a violation of the Sixth Amendment role of the jury. The decision of whether and how to reinstate the… Read More Delaware’s Death Penalty Declared Unconstitutional by State’s Supreme Court
Via CNS: At a time when the official party platform advocates for removing current legislative restrictions on obtaining abortions, pro-life Democrats came to Philadelphia with a counter message: You can’t win big without us. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has called for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federal funding for most abortions and continues to… Read More Pro-life Democrats Deliver Whole Life Message in Philadelphia
Pope Francis has announced that Panama will host the next World Youth Day in 2019.
via Vatican News: Pope Francis visited on Friday the Pediatric Hospital of Prokocim near Krakow and in an address to patients and staff said he wished that “We Christians could be as close to the sick as Jesus was, in silence, with a caress, with prayer.” Sadly, the Pope continued, “our society is tainted by… Read More Pope Francis Visits Children’s Hospital
via Vatican Radio: Pope Francis on Friday morning paid an emotional visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, the site of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were put to death during the Second World War. Prior to his visit to the camp, the Pope decided he… Read More Pope Francis Visits Auschwitz
