parishes during the closure. They developed the HOPE Campaign (Helping our Parishes Endure) where a parishioner from anywhere in the Diocese of Tucson could donate to their parish on-line. To date, almost $50,000 has been donated.

Today’s installment of “things about the Catholic Church that seem so crazy they can’t possibly be true, but actually are” involves “reverse canonization,” also known as “infernal canonization.”

Covid19 has brought sadness and pain to us. we are struggling with our faith but, we still look up to GOD ABOVE for help. God above is a song of Lament, a cry for help. it moves from the darkness of uncertainty and pain to the brightness that hope brings.

La Subsecretaria del Dicasterio para los Laicos, la Familia y la Vida, dirigió un mensaje a los participantes de la Aldea Temática "Políticas para la Felicidad", plataforma preparatoria del evento Economy of Francis, que se está llevando a cabo online con la participación de jóvenes de todo el mundo.

En la Audiencia General de este miércoles 12 de agosto, Papa Francisco afirmó que “el coronavirus no es la única enfermedad que hay que combatir, sino que la pandemia ha sacado a la luz patologías sociales más amplias”, como “la visión distorsionada de la persona, una mirada que ignora su dignidad y su carácter relacional.”

Pope Francis asks the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede so that humanity might overcome the novel coronavirus, as the Church prepares to celebrate the feast of her Assumption.

There is good news to be found not only in this collective achievement in the making, but also in the many personal acts of heroism and sacrifice that can be found. Nurses, doctors, chaplains, essential workers — people taking risks big and small to feed us and care for us and nurture us even in illness unto death.

The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on other, “more widespread social diseases,” particularly attacks on the God-given human dignity of every person, Pope Francis said. “The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable and interconnected we all are.

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks it is a good idea for schools to reopen and for children to return to school in the fall. “It’s not risk of school openings versus public health. It’s public health versus public health,”

A suspended priest in the Diocese of Sacramento has been automatically excommunicated because he continued to celebrate Mass despite being instructed not to do so by Bishop Jaime Soto, and he also has refused to acknowledge Pope Francis as head of the Catholic Church.

Prominent democracy activists were arrested and charged for violating Hong Kong’s new national security law Monday, including Agnes Chow, a 23-year-old Catholic democracy activist. Chow has been outspoken in her support for civil rights in the former British colony.

Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin writes on behalf of Pope Francis to the Knights of Columbus, saying Pope Francis is grateful for their contribution to the Church's mission of evangelization.

Their heads encased in white bandages covering the wounds where they had been conjoined, 2-year-old twins named Ervina and Prefina were baptized by Pope Francis Aug. 6 in the chapel of his residence.

Viewing the burned wasteland of the Beirut port, one’s eye catches a grey concrete slab in the foreground. It bears this stark message scribbled by the Lebanese in black ink: “My Government Did This.”

Two hugely controversial ballot propositions were put up for a vote in 1981, the first seeking to re-criminalize abortion and the other to legalize it with no restrictions at all. Both measures went down in flames, the first by almost 70 percent and the second by nearly 90 percent

For me, it’s enough to induce intellectual whiplash. For most of my adult life, Italy has been a global exemplar of how not to run a country, with a legendarily opaque bureaucracy, notoriously corrupt, and struggling to provide even basic public services such as garbage collection or fixing potholes. Now all of a sudden, Italy has become a case study in efficiency and leadership.

La tierra salvadoreña nuevamente “se tiñe de sangre inocente, de un buen pastor entregado a sus ovejas”. Ayer, el padre Ricardo Cortéz, de 44 años, párroco del poblado de San Francisco Chinamequita y rector del seminario San Óscar Arnulfo Romero, fue asesinado. En un comunicado, la diócesis de Zacatecoluca condena este crimen “inexplicable”.

Cuando sentimos fuerte la duda y el miedo y nos parece que nos hundimos, en los momentos difíciles de la vida, no debemos avergonzarnos de gritar, como Pedro: «¡Señor, sálvame!».

The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group has denied rumours that his movement had stored arms at Beirut's port.