Church in the US

Digital pilgrimage adds new dimension to World Youth Day
- Church in the US, Global Church
- Jul 17, 2016
Young pilgrims from around the world will be sharing stories from World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, next week,, not only verbally with each other, but also through social media, using social media to connect with family members, friends, and the wider world.
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Theologians press US bishops to declare racism ‘intrinsic evil’
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jul 17, 2016
With new urgency surrounding the issue in light of the tensions that erupted in the Dallas shootings, theologians and pastoral leaders are calling on the U.S. bishops to lift up racism as an “intrinsic evil” tantamount to abortion and gay marriage.
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Aspiring nun crowdfunds to pay off $12K student loan debt
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Jul 17, 2016
Alida Taylor, 28, was told by the Sisters of Life that she couldn’t actually enter the order until she’d repaid her student loans. She she turned to an online crowdfunding program, and generated enough money to make a $10,000 contribution to a vocations fund.
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Nun and sister of original ‘Ghostbusters’ star says acting is preaching
- Church in the US
- Jul 16, 2016
Dominican Sister Nancy Murray, whose brother Bill Murray starred in the original ‘Ghostbusters,’ is an accomplished actress herself, staging performances of the lives of strong Church women such as St. Catherine of Siena and Sister Dorothy Stang.
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Trump’s VP pick describes himself as ‘Evangelical Catholic’
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- Jul 15, 2016
Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, tapped on Friday by Donald Trump to be his running mate in 2006, comes from a Catholic family that revered the Kennedys and later began attending an Evangelical megachurch, and now describes himself as a hybrid “Evangelical Catholic.”
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Police chaplains struggle amid summer of pain, fear
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jul 14, 2016
Catholic chaplains in America who work at the intersection of police forces and minority communities are struggling to deal with a violent summer, saying that when they listen to people on the ground, what they’re hearing is “sadness, pain, fear.”
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Theologians press US bishops to declare racism ‘intrinsic evil’