Emphasizing stricter adherence to church norms, the change mirrors those several bishops in recent years have made to tighten diocesan policies pertaining to funerals and burials.
Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle conveyed his sadness in hearing of the shooting the evening before at the Seattle Center in a July 27 letter to Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.
A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit Monday from an interfaith group that challenged the legitimacy of President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, dismissing claims that its overwhelmingly conservative Christian makeup lacked a legally required balance of viewpoints.
As pope, Leo has repeatedly shown himself willing to stick his neck out in defense of migrants. But he spent years confronting his own migration crisis as bishop of the rural diocese of Chiclayo in northern Peru.
OSV News spoke with Catholic Scouting America's national chairman, Bill Guglielmi, to learn more about the fresh identity and the lasting value of Scouting membership.
French top politicians, bishops and family remembered the 85-year-old Fr. Jacques Hamel 10 years after the priest was murdered by two Islamic terrorists as he was celebrating Mass July 26, 2016, in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France.
Donated Marian icons line the walls inside the Ephesus House. At the center stands a statue of Mary modeled after the one in Turkey, alongside a relic said to be from her veil.
