God bless Erika Kirk for her very difficult act of forgiveness, for sharing it with us and for inspiring others to forgive. I hope it starts a tsunami of forgiveness because forgiveness can heal the world.

The slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was “a modern-day St. Paul,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a Sept. 19 appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

Clergy and religious along with lay Catholic faithful came out in droves at an anti-corruption rally in the Philippines capital of Manila Sept. 21 that drew tens of thousands of protesters.

Pope Leo XIV prayed that the leaders of nations would use money and resources to promote the common good rather than using “wealth against humanity” by “turning it into weapons that destroy peoples or monopolies that humiliate workers.”

Pope Leo XIV Sept. 20 told those suffering with ALS and their families, who have been “given a very difficult burden to bear,” that he is praying for them.