Many Cultures | Una Familia: ‘Why don’t they come here legally?’
Jan 24 2012
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a conference sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. More than 200 participants from around the country, including bishops, priests, advocates, immigration lawyers and pastoral ministers, gathered in Salt Lake City to study and discuss the current situation of immigrants in the 50 states.
AFRICENTRIC | Matters that matter
Jan 24 2012
As we walk into this new year, new challenges await us. Sometimes when faced with looming challenges, the bountiful blessings given by God often seem to vanish or grow small in our psyché. I would like to share some thoughts on both the challenges and the blessings as “matters that matter.”
Thoughts on Our Church| Pope’s words should inspire us all
Jan 24 2012
Canon law requires each Catholic bishop to make a pilgrimage (or ad limina visit) to Rome every five years to report on the state of his diocese and, while there, to “venerate the tombs of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and to present himself to the Roman Pontiff.”
Making the old new: Vatican encourages a recovery of ‘apologetics’
Jan 15 2012
VATICAN CITY – In the Catholic Church, it’s true that everything old can be new again, and the Vatican wants one of those things to be the art of “apologetics” – dusted off and updated to respond to new challenges, including those posed by militant atheists.
Cardinal Foley, ‘patriarch of American Catholic press,’ dies
Dec 13 2011
Cardinal John P. Foley, an internationally respected priest-journalist who led the Catholic Church’s social communications council for more than two decades, died Dec. 11 in his native Philadelphia. The 76-year-old cardinal had been battling leukemia.
Cardinal Foley dies; was Vatican communications chief, Mideast advocate
Dec 12 2011
DARBY, Pa. – U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley, who spent more than two decades leading the church’s social communications council and later worked for the church in the Middle East, died Dec. 11 after a battle with leukemia. The cardinal, who had been residing at Villa St. Joseph, the home for retired Philadelphia archdiocesan priests, was 76.
Silent erosion of religious liberty
Nov 17 2011
“Religious Freedom expresses what is unique about the human person, for it allows us to direct our personal and social life to God, in whose light the identity, meaning and purpose of the person are fully understood,” – Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the World Day for Peace, January 1, 2011.