Diocesan News
What struck me most was the way all the scientists at the table connected their ideas about research with a deep commitment to the mission of Catholic universities. [Read More]
Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country and they see as one of their own was elected pope. [Read More]
Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose his papal name on May 8, church historians familiar with the cardinal's career and the needs of the church were probably not surprised. [Read More]
As pope, he has chosen the name Leo. This is the surest sign that he is a safe pair of hands acceptable to all sides in the ecclesiastical culture wars, while being committed to the vision of Pope Francis. He has taken the name after the great pope Leo XIII who wrote what Pope John Paul II called the ‘immortal document’: Rerum Novarum. At the end of the nineteenth century, Leo XIII was concerned about the rights of workers. [Read More]