– A resolution that passed the European Parliament criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion and calling for inclusion in the Charter of the European Union of a universal right to abortion is part of a “radical political” agenda that threatens basic human rights and the cohesion of the union, said the general secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union.

The Vatican is now a formal party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and has declared it intends also to formally join the 2015 Paris Agreement.

The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation “has become shockingly commonplace in our country,” said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Ann Augherton, managing editor of the Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, is the recipient of the 2022 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association.

After nearly 300 performances of “Tolton: From Slave to Priest,” actor Jim Coleman said his life has been transformed.