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Certain critiques of the current pontificate challenge the Second Vatican Council and end up forgetting the Magisterium of Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

As the US Bishops observe “Religious Freedom Week,” the acting president of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty warns against “discrimination against religion in general and Catholic Christianity in particular."

The June 20 the "toppling and defacing" of a statue of St. Junipero Serra and other statues in the city's Golden Gate Park is the latest example of some people using the current movement against racial injustice as a reason for violence, looting and vandalism.

A criminal investigation into a retired Catholic bishop accused of childhood sexual abuse by more than a dozen men remains open, police in Wyoming said.

Ciertas críticas al actual pontificado contestan el Concilio Vaticano II y terminan olvidando el Magisterio de San Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI

Father Chris Corbally, a stellar astronomer at the Vatican Observatoryd in Arizona, has had his name attached to a rocky body in the asteroid belt that orbits the sun in slightly less than four years.

Pope Francis on Sunday asked believers to join him in praying for a renewed and effective commitment to protect refugees and migrants. Addressing the pilgrims in St. Peters Square after the recitation of the Angelus prayer, the Pope appealed for respect and care for displaced persons recalling that on Saturday the United Nations celebrated World Refugee Day.

Algunos estaban evaluando si la decisión en contra de la medida para detener DACA, una medida que la mayoría de la corte calificó como "arbitraria y caprichosa", le dio instrucciones a la administración sobre cómo finalizar el programa legalmente, y solo dictaminó sobre la forma para terminar DACA .

"We can come out of this crisis spiritually and morally stronger," Pope Francis said. "That will depend on the conscience and responsibility of each one of us. Not alone, though; only together and with the grace of God."

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted late Friday afternoon, June 19, that - effective immediately - requires all residents to wear face coverings in public spaces, indoors or out.

But fair’s fair, so if we’re going to moan about the Vatican – and, in many ways, isn’t that the favorite indoor sport of Catholics everywhere? – we also need to acknowledge its strengths, and high on that list has to be its remarkable sense of drama.

Ciertas críticas al actual pontificado contestan el Concilio Vaticano II y terminan olvidando el Magisterio de San Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI

A surprise trip by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI to his native Bavaria to be with his dying brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, seems to be stoking fevered political and religious imaginations.

El Santo Padre describe 3 situaciones concretas a las que se enfrentan los misioneros hoy; las mismas a las que se enfrentaron en su tiempo los Apóstoles: la hostilidad de los que quieren silenciar la Palabra de Dios, la amenaza física en su contra o la persecución directa de su pueblo y experimentar por momentos sentimiento de abandono por parte de Dios.

Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has heightened awareness regarding the need to protect refugees and migrants and to care for the environment.

DACA protects about 700,000 young people who qualify for the program from deportation and allows them to work, go to college, get health insurance and obtain a driver's license.

Just after Freedom Day, celebrated by African Americans with particular emotion after the killing of George Floyd, Martin Luther King's daughter reflects with Vatican Media on the nonviolent battle for equality and underlines the particular harmony between Pope Francis and her father.

The U.S. bishops are urging Catholics to "pray, reflect and take action" on religious liberty in the United States and abroad during Religious Freedom Week June 22-29.

The protesters were part of the "Peaceful, Prayerful Protest" organized by the South Phoenix-based Mary's Ministries apostolate. Sannia was invited to say a few words by event organizers before a public recitation of the rosary over a loudspeaker system.