In the wake of the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd that prompted national outrage and discussion about Black lives and racial justice, local Catholics asked themselves “Where’s Christ’s body when his members are being killed or facing injustice -- where is the church in this?” Stephen Staten said.
The pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th century heroes of the faith in underground churches endured, and what 21st century confessors in China and elsewhere endure today; and that is no bad thing.
My grandma’s favorite question is one we now discourage her from uttering. “Can you come in?” The impulse to swing open her door and her arms, honed over nine decades and stitched into her Irish-Catholic DNA, is not easily thwarted. Yet we have attempted to do so this year.
Churches were asked to chime their bells at 3 p.m. in an act of mourning for three people who were killed in Nice's Notre Dame Basilica while preparing for morning Mass.
An upcoming virtual conference hopes to show that even if people cannot travel and mingle, they can still join together for a weekend of faith and education.
Catholic leaders in northern El Salvador are speaking against the effects of increased government military presence along the country's northern border with Honduras because of how it is affecting the free movement and livelihood of rural communities.
When it comes to matters of racial justice, there's not a need for the church to say more, but a need for the church to do more, retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, told pilgrims gathered at the Catholic Enrichment Center in Louisville.
During the ongoing pandemic, the commitment of health care workers to treat COVID-19 patients even at risk to their own health and lives is an illustration of Judeo-Christian values still at work in the larger society, said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco.
When Pope Francis said gay people have a right to be in a family and that gay couples needed some form of civil law to protect their rights, he was not saying that gay couples should have a right to adopt children.
This statement of Pope Francis has been described in major news outlets as a bombshell, firestorm, shock, and disaster. Both secular and ecclesiastical critics accuse the pope of diluting church doctrine and contradicting church teaching about same sex unions.
While there is no doubt that Pope Francis said civil laws should protect the rights of gay couples, some mystery shrouds the context in which he said it and the way it is used in a new film.
Les McDonald, a longtime presence in Bay Area real estate and as a part of the property management arm of the Archdiocese of San Francisco died Oct. 17, 2020. He was 80 years old.