Cardinal Sean O’Malley

Boston cardinal: Getting COVID vaccine ‘morally correct thing to do’
- Jan 20, 2021
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, a member of Pope Francis’s council of cardinal advisers, said he hopes that the example of the pope and his predecessor Benedict XVI receiving the COVID-19 vaccine will inspire others to follow suite and recognize that getting it is “the morally correct thing to do.”

By Inés San Martín
Papal Foundation’s COVID grants will fund medicine, food in developing countries
- Dec 19, 2020
The Papal Foundation has announced it will give $1.8 million in grants to support COVID-19 relief efforts in developing nations around the world, with the majority of the funds assisting with health care and basic needs for the poor.

By Catholic News Service
Papal safeguarding commission meets online and in Rome
- Sep 21, 2020
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors met online and, for those who could, in Rome for their plenary assembly Sept. 16-18.

By Carol Glatz

Trump, Congress urged to make ‘access to quality education’ a priority
- Jul 30, 2020
Two U.S. cardinals and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have an urgent message for President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress: The next emergency stimulus package must help tuition-paying families keep their Catholic and other nonpublic schools open this fall.

By Catholic News Service
Prayer vigils, protests, bishops’ homilies echo call for racial justice
- Jun 9, 2020
Bishops called for Americans to celebrate the country’s diversity, prayed the deep sin of racism can be overcome and invited people to remember that each person is a unique creation of God in Trinity Sunday homilies, messages and events.

By Catholic News Service
Prelates condemn Floyd murder, ‘evil’ of racism, call for action
- Jun 5, 2020
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, condemned the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and warned the country must “leave behind the purveyors of polarization” in politics.

By Catholic News Service