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Bishop Socrates Mesiona issued a pastoral message for the National Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking that serves as a “call to the conscience of the entire nation.” [...]

The pontiff told organizers of a Vatican-backed initiative that global crises are still leaving many children in extreme poverty. [...]

In a break from major medical associations, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommends against gender surgeries and other medical interventions on youth. [...]

Regarding the miracle that occurred more than a century ago, the bishop of Tumaco noted that it was also known to St. Carlo Acutis and is part of the exhibition he created about Eucharistic miracles. [...]

Fr. Roderick O’Brien, a retired priest in the Archdiocese of Adelaide, Australia, believes the life of a victim of sexual abuse in the 1940s needs to be known. He hopes one day she will be declared a saint. He was speaking about Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Catholic woman who was sexually abused during the Japanese occupation Read More…

Could this Australian survivor become a canonized saint?

While many are wrapping up Christmas celebrations on December 25, Catholics continue to celebrate and rejoice until the feast of the Epiphany on January 6 — or even until the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) on February 2.  Then it’s back to the humdrum of ordinary life. Much of the world is just focused on Read More…

Louisiana’s little known “extra” holiday season

The North American country is known for being a global leader in suicide deaths. [...]

From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop's Annual Appeal is over.

Educators need to entice reading, and kicking the classics to the curb won’t help.

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops Conference (the CEI), boldly entered the debate over assisted suicide in Italy in advance of a bill seeking to regulate and possibly expand access, set to reach the Senate this month. The bill follows on the heels of two regions, Tuscany and Sardinia, regulating assisted suicide in Read More…

Cardinal Zuppi enters fraught Italian debate over assisted suicide