In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor hours after the Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activies, said that with abortion laws returning to the
The American bishops’ initiative Walking with Moms in Need launched in early 2020. Within weeks, it was largely waylaid by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the program is gaining steam in dioceses
On Wednesday, a panel of Catholic leaders joined an online forum to discuss the Church’s response to the growing crisis of gun violence in the United States. Organized by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, the
On May 2, officials with the National Eucharistic Revival announced that they had selected 46 priests from across the country to serve as National Eucharistic Preachers. These priests have volunteered to share the message of Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist. “The
The heartbeat of Catholic life is the Eucharist. This is why American bishops launched a three-year initiative last fall in the grassroots of the Church to revive devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the consecrated host. While the
From the earliest times of the Church, deacons served in three ministries at the direction of their bishops, meaning that guy who assists the priest at the altar is more than just a friendly neighbor offering a hand as a junior priest
The perseverance of prayer, dialogue, truth and support with Lenten resolve is a way to end the war in Ukraine and 12 other conflicts around the world, a panel of experts said Thursday during a streamed discussion sponsored by the Initiative on
In a special report on Catholic colleges and universities, writer Joseph LaPlante explores how restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 force professors to address new realities of how they were teaching — and how their students were learning. From using new
The agility of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States to historically navigate swift, new and uncertain waters in the past is producing pre professional majors in new digital disciplines for the future that intertwine traditional values in the schools. The
As the COVID pandemic rages on, with positive cases soaring to all-time highs across the country, the teachers, administrators, staff and families of Catholic schools continue to prove that they’re up to the dual challenge of educating children academically and helping to