The video insists that vaccines are safe, effective and an “act of love.” It features Pope Francis as well six cardinals and archbishops from North, Central and South America.

A new Catholic secondary school in the Archdiocese of Boston will combine virtual instruction and in-person activities. The founder of Lumen Verum Academy, Thomas W. Carroll, writes about this new model.

“Please; to be with Jesus is to be joyful, it is also to have the capacity that holiness gives us to have this sense of humor.”

Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken critics of Pope Francis and a vaccine skeptic, said he has COVID-19 and his staff said he is breathing through a ventilator.

“I join in the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan. I ask all of you to pray with me to the God of peace, so that the clamor of weapons might cease and solutions can be found at the table of dialogue.”

I want to belong to a church that is willing to see my L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and me as just like straight and cisgender Catholics in our striving to follow Jesus. Can Catholic church leaders stand in my shoes?