National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent Christopher White will be joining Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life as associate director for strategic engagement and a senior fellow.
A Catholic bishop and the director of an AIDS support organization say the cuts came as a surprise, and left people with no time to make alternative arrangements.
Fr. Jim Worth first learned about the benefits of sensory rooms after attending a panel discussion organized by Together We Bloom, a local nonprofit dedicated to serving the needs of neurodivergent children.
The peace movement, founded March 13, 1945, about six months before the end of World War II, works quietly and largely without much fanfare in France despite its widespread presence in the country.
Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan leaders to "lower the tension in the country" as Catholic bishops in Sudan and South Sudan expressed alarm at the escalating violence in the world's youngest nation and warned of a catastrophe if full-scale war returns.
The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death penalty. Its March 24-27 Death Penalty Abolition Week brought to campus nationally known and respected opponents of the death penalty.
Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States.
