via PBS News: Bishop Michael Pham, appointed by Pope Leo as the first U.S. bishop under his papacy, has emerged as a new voice of the Catholic Church. Through his own story of survival as a child refugee from Vietnam, he’s stepped into the national spotlight, showing up at immigration courts to support families caught… Read More Bishop Michael Pham Emerges as a New Voice of the Catholic Church

The USCCB has released The Cabrini Pledge, as “both a reminder of our immigrant heritage and a call to deeper engagement with our faith in response to current events.” You can watch Bishop Seitz introduce the pledge here: Here is the text of the pledge: To affirm, in word and deed, the inherent dignity of… Read More The US Bishops Introduce the Cabrini Pledge

via OSV News: In a video message to the annual ALS Walk for Life in Chicago, he said he mourns for those who have died from the disease and praised caregivers as well as researchers and all involved in fighting the neurodegenerative disorder…. “You have been given a very difficult burden to bear. I wish… Read More Pope Leo XIV Sends Video Message to ALS Walk for Life in Chicago

via the Vatican: No matter how ancient or widespread, Cain’s violence cannot be tolerated as “normal.” On the contrary, the norm is revealed in God’s question to the guilty party: “Where is your brother?” (Gen 4:9). It is in this question that we find our vocation, the rule and measure of justice…. Brother, sister, where… Read More Fraternity Means Rediscovering the Face of the Other

Watch Millennial writer Nichole Flores and other Catholic leaders in the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life’s “Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity: A Special Initiative Roundtable on Catholic Principles, Human Costs, and Pastoral Challenges”:

via X: The “globalization of indifference” Pope Francis warned about now seems to have become a globalization of powerlessness. Faced with injustice and innocent suffering, we are more aware — but risk doing nothing, overcome with a feeling of helplessness. Yet history is saved by the humble, the just, and martyrs, in whom goodness shines and… Read More Pope Leo Warns of ‘Globalization of Powerlessness’

Christopher Lamb writes: An Italian teenager who liked playing video games and making funny films of his pets became the Catholic Church’s first “millennial” saint on Sunday. Carlo Acutis, who was just 15 when he died from leukaemia in 2006, used his computing skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith, setting up a website… Read More The First Millennial Saint: Saint Carlo Acutis