Clerical kidnappings, elections, and COVID dominate Catholic news in Americas
- Apr 13, 2021
“Let us give the faith a Thai face and flesh, which involves much more than making translations,” Pope Francis said. “It’s about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb.”
When Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory was installed as the seventh archbishop of Washington May 21, he joined the local church in the nation’s capital in preaching a message of healing and hope.
Research indicates that religiously active people report being happier.
Francis tells priests and religious gathered in Panama not to grow weary, despite the sins of the Church.
The Vatican has an unusual dilemma on its hands after nearly all the nuns in a tiny French religious order threatened to renounce their vows rather than accept the Holy See’s decision to remove their superior.
God’s ability to call vocations isn’t limited by geography, and so a vocation director must go wherever the Holy Spirit leads.
Church leaders in South Sudan and Congo often wonder if they have labored in vain because, too often, their own people are waging war on each other.