On Sunday, Christopher White reported: President Donald Trump identified himself as the “best [president] in the history of the Catholic Church” in a conference call for Catholic leaders and educators Saturday, where he warned that issues at stake in the upcoming presidential election, particularly on abortion and religious liberty, “have never been more important for… Read More Why the Catholic Bishops Were Wrong to Cozy Up To Trump

Christopher White writes: A new study finds that while young people are experiencing heightened levels of loneliness and isolation as a result of social distancing, they are not experiencing a decline in their faith. Among those surveyed, 35 percent of respondents said that they are actually experiencing an increase of faith, and 46 percent attested… Read More Young People Are Experiencing Loneliness and Isolation But Not Loss of Faith During the Corona Crisis

via the Vatican: Dear brothers and sisters, in the time of trial that we are presently undergoing, we too, like Thomas, with our fears and our doubts, have experienced our frailty. We need the Lord, who sees beyond that frailty an irrepressible beauty. With him we rediscover how precious we are even in our vulnerability.… Read More Pope Francis: Reject Selfish Indifference, Inequality, and Injustice

via the Vatican: Today we celebrate the fiftieth Earth Day. This is an occasion for renewing our commitment to love and care for our common home and for the weaker members of our human family. As the tragic coronavirus pandemic has taught us, we can overcome global challenges only by showing solidarity with one another… Read More Pope Francis on Earth Day: We Can Only Overcome Global Challenges with Solidarity

Michael Sandel writes: Mobilizing to confront the pandemic and, eventually, to reconstruct the shattered economy, requires not only medical and economic expertise but moral and political renewal. We need to ask a basic question that we have evaded over these last decades: What do we owe one another as citizens?… We need to better reward… Read More Don’t Rebuild the Same Broken Economy That Failed So Many Essential Workers

Why does God love me? Why does God forgive sins? Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Jesuit Autocomplete hosts Fr. Paddy Gilger and Fr. Eric Sundrup answer some of the Internet’s most-searched questions about God:

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of Caritas Internationalis, in Novena: The pandemic is making the suffering of vulnerable people – migrants and refugees, the elderly, the sick, the poor and unemployed – even deeper. We urge our governments to ensure access to healthcare and social… Read More Cardinal Chito: Isolation Shows How Much We Need Other People