Catholic Church

By Carrie Gress, National Catholic Register - Finally, at a few weeks shy of my 36th birthday, I had my first child. And, yes, suddenly, I understood what it was like to give until you could give no more, to love with a ferocious love, and to want to suffer everything with your child just to help him or her carry burdens. I finally understood how Mary must love us.

By Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald - The bishops of Chile are in Rome this week for emergency meetings with Pope Francis, who wants to address the crisis of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in their country. Thirty-one of Chile’s sitting bishops will participate, along with a handful of retired prelates — virtually the country’s entire episcopate.

By Gretchen Filz, GetFed - The Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord, also called Ascension Thursday, follows 40 days after Easter Sunday and is a Holy Day of Obligation (in some locations this feast is transferred to the following 7th Sunday of Easter). The Ascension is when Jesus left earth—with his physical, resurrected body—to sit at the Father’s right hand in heaven.