The Jesuit Refugee Service in Rome confirms that on Monday afternoon its country director Alexis Prem Kumar S J was abducted by a group of unidentified men in western Afghanistan We are deeply shocked by Prem s abduction We are in contact with all the relevant authorities and doing everyth
In 1895 a young boy from the Italian village of Sotto il Monte sat down and began to write Nothing unusual about that mdash many youngsters get the inspiration to write about things they see They grab a pen or a pencil or in the cases of toddlers crayons and fill up reams of paper with the pro
After returning to Istanbul from his meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem Patriarch Bartholomew made the surprise announcement that the two of them had ldquo agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and to our successors to celebrate together a gathering in Nicea in 2025 after 17 centuries th
On Thursday May 29 the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops U S C C B published a letter to Environmental Protection Agency E P A Administrator Gina McCarthy about the agency rsquo s carbon emission standards for existing power plants The letter highlights several principles of Catholic Socia
When you grow up Catholic you learn early on that Sunday Mass is non-negotiable Unless you are dying or certifiably contagious you go to Mass I was in school before I had a friend who was not Catholic and whose denominational road to salvation did not mandate Sunday attendance My first thought