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Pope adds six women and an American cardinal to economics council

10 Aug 2020

Pope Francis has appointed seven highly qualified lay persons—six of them women—and six cardinals, including Joseph Tobin of Newark, N.J., to the board of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy. The pope first established the Council for the Economy together with the Secretariat for the Economy on Feb. 24, 2014, when…

The end of (denying the reality of) racism

Election 2020, Election Week 1, News

10 Aug 2020

We are living in the midst of an anti-racist revolution, Ibram X. Kendi writes in a bracing cover story for The Atlantic’s September issue. This spring and summer, demonstrations calling for racial justice attracted hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country. By June, roughly three out of four Americans were…

Vatican official decries “senseless politics” regarding pandemic

Election 2020, Election Week 1, News

10 Aug 2020

Bishop John Stowe: President Trump is anti-life

Election 2020, Election Week 1, News

9 Aug 2020

READ HERE the Lexington, Ky, newspaper report on comments expressed by Bishop John Stowe, OFM, Lexington

Catholics, immigration and politics

Election 2020, Election Week 1

8 Aug 2020

Friends, Catholics and Citizens, lend an ear to this podcast

Catholics care. Catholics vote

Election 2020, Election Week 1

8 Aug 2020

Here’s what the U.S. bishops say about faithful citizenship.

Pondering the election but tired of divisiveness? America showcases films to help

Election 2020, Election Week 1

8 Aug 2020

As our country grapples with its history of racial injustice, many streaming services have been highlighting films and documentaries that help tell this painful story. Here we offer some links to that content, as well as some classic Catholic films highlighting heroes and saints who have worked hard for justice.…

75 years of nuclear weapons madness

News, Non-Violence, Tony Magliano

5 Aug 2020

By Tony Magliano Wars have always caused needless suffering, destruction and death. But 75 years ago, the hell of war reached a new all time immoral low when on August 6, 1945 a United States Boeing B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima instantly killing…