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On the morning of Nov. 2, the nation’s capital looked as if it was getting ready for a hurricane rather than an election. Drills buzzed away, fences went up, hammers pounded, as workers rapidly boarded up buildings, from law offices, to hotels, to vitamin and coffee shops in the vicinity of the White House.
Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his apostolic letter of beatification of the founder of the Knights of Columbus.
Author Terry Hershey talks about the benefits of putting pen, crayon, marker, or any other writing instrument to paper and capturing what we’re going through at that moment.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty praised the Department of Health and Human Services for resolving discrimination complaints over two hospitals’ refusal to let patients have access to the sacraments of baptism and the anointing of the sick during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pope Francis often has expressed openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights.
The only way to end war and ensure humanity’s survival is “through encounter and negotiation, setting aside our conflicts and pursuing reconciliation, moderating the language of politics and propaganda, and developing true paths of peace,” Pope Francis said.
Dakota Hulsey was diligently setting up tables in a downtown Portland restaurant Oct. 17. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw 225 people walking in procession behind the Eucharist on busy Northwest Everett Street. Hulsey paused for a moment, went to the window and gazed with folded hands, purple surgical gloves and all.
