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

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Fr. James Martin, SJ, Kerry Weber, and Thomas Awiapo discuss the Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable:

Millennial writer Christopher White has a new article at Crux. He writes: While I’m content to let all parties involved exercise prudential judgment as they see fit, the fact remains that a sizable number of Catholics and other Christians are doing some deep soul searching as to how best to navigate the 2016 elections. Maybe the… Read More Renewal from the Ground Up: Never Trump, Never Hillary, Never Withdrawal