The bombings of Iran by Israel and the United States are clearly immoral when weighed against Catholic doctrine regarding war. According to the church’s second teaching on war known as the “just-war theory” – which stands in stark contrast to the Catholic Church’s oldest teaching on war which is “active nonviolence” or “prophetic pacifism”– one […]
How is it possible that so much of the world is silent: silent with the full knowledge of genocide being inflicted upon children, pregnant women with their unborn babies, the elderly, and countless innocent people in Israeli occupied Gaza? And with silence comes inertia – the tendency to do nothing. The shameful endless flow of […]
WASHINGTON — Catholic Relief Services is calling on Israel to resume allowing its humanitarian aid teams access to the Palestinian Gaza Strip to deliver food and other supplies to civilians as a partial blockade continues. Israel imposed a full blockade on humanitarian assistance into Gaza in early March just before it launched new military offenses […]
Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, marks one year since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel. Thousands of people, both fighters and innocent civilians, have died in the continued exchange of violence. As it escalates and expands, more people are at risk. Today, we join our Holy Father, Pope Francis, and encourage all to dedicated […]
ROME — During his Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis appealed for the release of the remaining Hamas hostages as he remembered 23-year-old American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five others whose bodies were recovered by Israeli military in Gaza last month. “I am praying for the victims and continue to be close to all of the families of […]
NEW YORK — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, will visit Israel and Palestine from Friday, April 12 through Thursday, April 18, in his role as chair of Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA). While there, the cardinal will meet with local Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious leaders, visit various social service and humanitarian […]
On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and began circling the moon – the first time in history for humans to visit another world. That evening the crew’s astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman transmitted a live television broadcast including spectacular pictures of the moon just […]
Hamas brutally, immorally attacked Israel, killing many innocent Israelis. No excuse can justify this. And no excuse can justify Israel’s counter attacks brutally, immorally killing many innocent Gazans. As I write, Israel is preparing to execute a massive military attack into Gaza. This will surely inflict tremendous additional suffering upon countless innocent civilians – especially […]
ROME — The Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem has called for a day of prayer and fasting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has urged Catholics to organize times of prayer with Eucharistic adoration and recitation of the rosary “to deliver to God the Father our […]
