Our Lady of Guadalupe documentary to run in theatres across the US
United States RNS A new documentary about the Virgin of Guadalupe – the vision of Mary, the mother of Jesus, seen by a 16th-century Mexican peasant – premiered on Tuesday at an event in Los Angeles attended by the city’s archbishop. Guadalupe: Madre de la Humanidad (Guadalupe: Mother of Humanity), in Spanish with English subtitles, will run in more than […]
US Supreme Court leak: Some Catholic abortion foes are uneasy about overturning Roe
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on Catholic responses to the leaked US Supreme Court draft opening which suggests a majority of the nine justices are poised to reverse the 1973 Roe v Wade decision…
Essay: Catholic bishops fight Biden but affirm his election
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that while US Catholic bishops may disagree with Pope Francis on a nunber of things, that Joe Biden won the last election is not among them…
Amid Black exodus from Catholic Church in US, young Catholics are pushing the church to address racism
RNS Byron Wratee recalls the silence among white Catholic priests after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Since then, he said, he’s made a conscious decision to attend only Catholic parishes that are majority Black. He’s remained critical of the church’s response to racism and racial justice in the aftermath of numerous police killings of Black […]