Catholic Church

August 20, 2021

Working in the Vineyard: Joy or Burden? by Joan Watson

By Joan Watson, Integrated Catholic - In the Gospel readings this week, we have been hearing about what it means to follow Christ. Lessons on the commandments and parables about the kingdom in a sense culminate in the first reading for Sunday’s liturgy. Joshua asks the people to make a decision: choose today whom you will serve. They insist they will serve the Lord (Joshua 24).

August 20, 2021

COVID Vaccination and Conscience Debate Intensifies, by Judy Roberts

By Judy Roberts, EWTN News - Amid a wave of new vaccine mandates being rolled out by businesses and institutions in response to the spike, Catholics who morally object to the vaccines are finding themselves at odds with those who think the ethical obligation to protect public health should be the foremost consideration.

August 20, 2021

‘Mass Pass’ for the Faithful? by Juliana Freitag

By Juliana Freitag, Church Militant - The suburbicarian diocese of Albano, currently led by Cdl. Marcello Semeraro, will celebrate both the episcopal ordination of its new bishop, Msgr. Vincenzo Viva, and the golden priestly jubilee of Cdl. Semeraro on the next Feast of the Nativity of Mary. For the faithful to attend the Solemn Mass, set for Sept. 8, the diocese is demanding presentation of the Italian health passport, the so-called Green Pass.

August 20, 2021

Pope Francis Favors Fr. James Martin, by Raymond J. de Souza

By Raymond J. de Souza, First Things - In late June, just as I was arriving in Kraków, Poland, for the annual seminar in Catholic social teaching organized by George Weigel, there was a minor kerfuffle about a personal letter that Pope Francis had sent to Fr. James Martin, S.J. It brought to mind another private papal letter from twenty-seven years ago. Private correspondence, selectively shared, is one way that popes choose their interpreters.