Three Catholic high schools in the Boston Archdiocese are closing at the end of the 2022-2023 school year, leaving families, teachers and alumni dismayed. But the closing of Mount Alvernia High School in Newton, Massachusetts, has sparked some unusual controversy online.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: A bracing interview on "culture wars"; Democratic candidate wins by a landslide in New Mexico; The Post looks into claims from "Masterpiece"
Linda Chase has written an oratorio based on Pope Francis' environmental encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." "I am interpreting Laudato Si' as a call to action through music," she says.
LGBTQ Catholics are still processing the recent denial of church blessings to people in same-sex unions. Many are also watching a Supreme Court case that continues a national debate over LGBTQ rights versus claims of religious liberty.
Commentary: After considering several possibilities, on Sunday, May 24, 2020, our parish resumed Sunday Masses in person, outside in the parking lot. We have been gathering this way ever since to celebrate the Eucharist.
Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Mar. 7, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019.
Students are demanding a stronger response from Boston College after two recent cases in which white students were accused of harassing Black and Hispanic students in a campus dorm.
A former altar boy who says he was sexually abused by the late Bishop Christopher Weldon has filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for the suffering he alleges was made worse by a church coverup.
