Got a brief reminder this morning nbsp from nbsp Jesuit Refugee Services nbsp about a Jesuit missing in Afghanistan now four months nbsp in the form of a letter to the nbsp teachers and students at a school in Sohadat in western Afghanistan where Father Alexis Prem Kumar was known and is missed It

America magazine and nbsp Saint Thomas More Chapel nbsp at Yale University seeking to recognize the finest nbsp literary work of Roman nbsp Catholic intelligence and imagination announce the creation of the George W Hunt Prize a 25 000 award that nbsp will nbsp consider works in a variety of ge

The Synod on the family 39 s General Rapporteur Cardinal Peter Erd presented the mid-term report on Oct 13 outlining the main questions highlighted over the past week of General Congregations which will now be examined in by the bishops fraternal delegates auditors and experts in the lsquo

Continuing to set a standard on the working conditions and treatment of adjunct professors Georgetown University has reached a tentative agreement with SEIU Local 500 nbsp on all of the terms of the university 39 s first collective bargaining agreement covering part-time faculty members on the mai

'His empathy and compassion toward the disenfranchised has earned him fans worldwide.'

'Our people have been abandoned' by political and religious leaders.

Cardinal P ter Erd of Hungary as the relator for the Oct 5-19 Synod of Bishops on the Family opened this historic discussion nbsp in Rome on Oct 6 with a presentation that seemed intended to lower expectations on the eventual outcome of the synod in 2015 while holding out a few strands of hop

Vatican Radio is reporting that nbsp Pope Francis has removed the Bishop of Ciudad del Este Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano nbsp He has appointed Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela R os Bishop of Villarrica del Esp ritu Santo as Apostolic Administrator According to a statement released by the Vatican on

Editor’s Note. “Families,” Pope Francis noted in a homily on Sept. 14, “are the first place in which we are formed as persons and, at the same time, the ‘bricks’ for the building up of society.” In preparation for the launch of the Synod of Bishops on the Fa

Describing himself as “beyond surprised” by his appointment to the Archdiocese of Chicago, Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich pledged to work with people of faith to “serve the common good” and continue efforts to promote healing in a church community wounded by the sex abuse crisis