I bet there have been times that you, like me, have experienced that empty feeling that you do not belong here, that you are an unwelcomed person – persona non grata. Now magnify that feeling. Imagine that you had to flee from your native country because of unbearable persecution and/or dire poverty conditions. Imagine that […]
Pope Francis criticized potential plans for mass deportations in the United States under President Donald Trump during a wide-ranging Italian television interview on Sunday. “If this is true it is a disgrace because it makes the poor unfortunate who have nothing pay the price of imbalance. This is not how things are solved,” the pope […]
I believe it is no mere coincidence that the U.S. national holiday celebrating the inspiring life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is set to fall on the very same day as the presidential inauguration of Donald J. Trump – Jan. 20. I believe a king has wise and holy advice for the president. If […]
ROME — Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., the Vatican announced Monday. The 70-year-old cardinal, who holds doctorates in moral theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and in political science from Stanford, succeeds Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, whose age-related resignation was simultaneously accepted by […]
WASHINGTON — Following the news of the shooting at a political rally involving former President Donald Trump, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops offered the following statement: “Together with my brother bishops, we condemn political violence, and we offer our prayers […]
