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Easter is a time to celebrate 'deep resurrection'
Posted on 04/17/2025 08:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
Expanding our reflection on the significance of Christ's resurrection beyond our own individual, familial or even species interests to include all of God's creation invites us to see the world more like God sees it.
California sisters form coalition to help migrants on border
Posted on 04/17/2025 08:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
As migrants in the U.S. scramble amid rapidly changing policies, congregations join forces to help immigration-related ministries near San Diego.
Jerusalem Christian leaders decry suffering, potential annexation of Palestine
Posted on 04/17/2025 05:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
A Jerusalem Voice for Justice is an ecumenical witness for equality and peace in Palestine/Israel. Christine Schenk interviews its spokesperson, Jesuit Fr. David Neuhaus.
JD Vance's Easter visit to Vatican could help resurrect his Catholic credentials
Posted on 04/17/2025 05:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
JD Vance is heading to Rome over Easter weekend on a visit that could offer the Catholic convert a chance of a reconciliation with Pope Francis after the vice president's row with the hierarchy over immigration.
Francis the comic strip: Only love
Posted on 04/17/2025 05:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
Francis the comic strip: Perfect love can save the world, Francis says.
Pope orders renewal of academy that trains nuncios
Posted on 04/16/2025 15:44 PM (National Catholic Reporter)
Pope Francis has raised the status of the Vatican's diplomatic academy to an institute of higher learning that will issue academic degrees while also strengthening its focus on evangelization.
Peru-based Catholic movement formally suppressed by the Vatican
Posted on 04/16/2025 15:33 PM (National Catholic Reporter)
Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay movements following decades of abuse allegations and internal investigations.
God always waits, goes looking for those who are lost, pope says
Posted on 04/16/2025 15:27 PM (National Catholic Reporter)
The Gospel contains a great message of hope, "because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!" said the text for Pope Francis' weekly general audience.
JD Vance announces trip to Rome, meeting at Vatican
Posted on 04/16/2025 14:28 PM (National Catholic Reporter)
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.
New Stations of the Cross focus on suffering of Native Americans, path to healing
Posted on 04/16/2025 08:00 AM (National Catholic Reporter)
This Lent, a new version of a Catholic devotion seeks to acknowledge the traumas experienced by Native people, including those inflicted by the Catholic Church, and to offer spiritual reflections on both suffering and healing.