Jeanie Hannaman

By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency - The Vatican said the encounter intends “to celebrate the beauty of human diversity and promote a message of peace, love, and solidarity, and promises to be a meaningful moment of intercultural dialogue and sharing of joy and hope.”... The June 14 meeting was organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and Dicastery for Communication and “aims to establish a link between the Catholic Church and comic artists”... The Vatican said the encounter intends “to celebrate the beauty of human diversity and promote a message of peace, love, and solidarity, and promises to be a meaningful moment of intercultural dialogue and sharing of joy and hope.”

By Jonathan Liedl, EWTN News - In a tranquil rural setting dedicated to the Virgin Mary, pilgrims immerse themselves in spring-fed waters believed by many to have miraculous healing properties... at the national Marian shrine of Subukia, to be precise... Owned by the Kenyan Catholic Conference of Bishops, the rural site in the Diocese of Nakuru has been a spiritual center for the East African nation for the past 30 years. Every year, as many as 200,000 people come to the 200-acre Village of Mary, Mother of God, for Marian devotions, Mass and reconciliation services ...

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - Showing charity, after the example of Our Lord Jesus Christ, toward Muslims—and for that matter other non-Catholics—is best manifested by the ardent desire to see them become, in the fullest sense of the notion, children of God. This can only be arrived at by the grace of the Sacrament of Baptism, something the interreligious dialogue is missing altogether... Instead, what is promoted is a naturalistic concept that solely focuses on arriving at common values with religions that deny Christ. Indeed, such ideas were condemned by Pope Pius XI in his Encyclical Mortalium Animos (1928).