Jeanie Hannaman

By Eduardo Berdejo, ACI Prensa Staff, (CNA) - The ongoing violence in the Holy Land, especially now with the war in Gaza, was addressed by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in his homily during the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary... The prelate’s diocese includes not only Israel but also those living in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank. This has allowed him to experience firsthand the consequences of violence, especially that which has ravaged the Gaza Strip in the last two years and which requires true words of peace, not “sugarcoated and abstract” speeches, he said.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - As we consider our Catholic faith—and the faith of Catholics around the world—we are accustomed to referring to American Catholics, European Catholics, Asian Catholics, Hispanic Catholics, or African Catholics. But the tribal adjectives modify the Catholic noun. Perhaps it would be better to accentuate the universality of the Catholic faith, which transcends every nation, as we modify every tribe with the Catholic adjective: Catholic Americans, Catholic Europeans, Catholic Asians, Catholic Africans, and so on.