via Vatican Insider: Mother Teresa will be proclaimed a saint next September: this is according to Italian news agency AGI, which also mentioned 5 September – the feast day of the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta – as a possible date for the celebration. The date, which will fall on a Monday, marks the 106th… Read More Mother Teresa Could be Canonized Next September
Would Jesus take in refugees? Perhaps it is more helpful to flip that question: would you take Jesus in as a refugee? The relevance of that question lies in the fact that Jesus was a refugee, as he and his family were forced to flee to Egypt to escape violence. Jesus tells us that whatever… Read More Why American Christians Should Support Welcoming Syrian Refugees
John Gehring and Richard Wood have explained what is on the line in this week’s deliberations at the USCCB: Nearly two months after Pope Francis made his first visit to the United States, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will set its strategic plans for the years ahead and refine a presidential election-year message to… Read More Will the Bishops Embrace or Ignore Pope Francis’ Agenda?
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. “Will you go out with me?” It’s a terrifying question once awkwardly muttered by romantically untried youths everywhere. No longer. I may have first uttered the words during a teen night at my local YMCA, or perhaps over my family’s landline on a… Read More Rethinking Chill
I just met an American seminarian studying to be a priest in Rome. When he was a child, his family illegally immigrated to the United States to flee violence and to find a better way of life. When he decided he wanted to become a priest, his bishop wasn’t able to send him to a… Read More Our Immigration System Should Not Keep Out the People (Including the Priests) We Need
Check out these recent articles from around the web: So help me God: ‘Faithful Citizenship’ and Catholics in public life by Stephen Schneck: “Finally, Faithful Citizenship could remind American Catholics that citizenship is not a license, but rather an ongoing formation of the soul to serve the common good. With citizenship comes rights and privileges,… Read More Around the Web
Beirut last night. Baghad this morning. And Paris tonight. ISIS is on a mission to terrorize the entire world. But while they promote an ideology of hate, there are heroes rising up across the globe to offer a counter-witness of radical love. Tonight I broke bread with one of them: Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil,… Read More An Iraqi bishop willing to die for his flock
