The headlines have stoked cynicism, but the Paycheck Protection Program have helped U.S. parishes to remain open during the pandemic. Pastoral associate Fran Rossi Szpylczyn explains how.

The handbook contain the most up-to-date norms and practices that bishops and superiors of religious orders should follow.

Kino was ”a classic example of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist, where faith meets science,” remembered as a defender of the Indigenous people of what would become the United States of America and Mexico.

“Wheat and Weeds” is the parable Christ gave us to bite down on when we feel that we do not belong. Christ and his compassion have not abandoned us.

Hint: He’s not another Francis.

The diocese said the respirator, delivered to the Campanha de Maraba Hospital July 12 by the apostolic nunciature in Brazil, was one of four sent by the pope to Brazil, which has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.