Progressive religious activists, including Catholic sisters, staged a sit-in at the Capitol, forming a human cross to protest Trump’s cruel treatment of migrants.
Why won’t the pope require bishops around the world to adopt the standards of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? It signed the treaty, but won’t comply.
Pope Francis’s gift of St. Peter’s relics to the Orthodox patriarch is remarkable. Rather than righting a previous wrong, it constitutes a genuine self-emptying.
In dealing with bishops who engage in sexual misconduct, the USCCB seems to think that bishops can police themselves, without lay input. We need a better system.