After President Biden said that U.S. bishops are not demanding that federal dollars not fund abortions, the U.S.C.C.B. stated that they are “united” in commitment to life.
Pope Francis told the million Congolese gathered before him that Jesus has shown “three sources” from which “to nurture peace”: “forgiveness, community and mission.”
Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., a priest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, describes the joy of Congolese people at the pope's visit and his hopes for what the pope's journey might bring.
”Hands off Africa!” Pope Francis said on the first day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Stop choking Africa: It is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.”
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Sister Anne Victory, a board member at U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, who has led efforts against human trafficking for over a decade.