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The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago

February 01, 2021

How did the relics of St. James, martyred by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in AD 44, end up in the remote and wild northwestern corner of Roman Hispania in the first place? Curtis Williams takes us to the crossroads of history and legend.

Pope Francis talks post-pandemic in interview with Italy’s Tg5

January 11, 2021

Pope Francis also discussed the increasingly diffuse social tendency to judge persons’ worth on the basis of “productivity” and to discard anyone “unproductive” – especially the sick, the elderly, and the unborn – a tendency he identifies as the chief characteristic of the “throwaway” culture.

London places of worship open despite mayor’s call

January 10, 2021

Houses of worship in England and Wales remain open, but several churches across denominations have taken the decision not to meet. "Catholic parishes," said Cardinal Nichols last week, "will continue to serve the needs of their local community."

Pope Francis says he will take coronavirus vaccine, says vaccination “ethical option” for all

January 09, 2021

Speaking to Mediaset Tg5 journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, in an interview that will air in its entirety on Sunday evening at 20:40 CET on the Italian network, Pope Francis said: "I believe that, ethically, everyone must take the vaccine."

Bishop Toal of Motherwell: Letter to faithful on coronavirus lockdown

January 08, 2021

Bishop Joseph Toal of Motherwell, Scotland, says the severity of the situation warrants emergency measures.

As LA County limits emergency care amid COVID surge, ethicists weigh in

January 06, 2021

Washington D.C., Jan 6, 2021 / 12:25 am MT (CNA).- Los Angeles County has announced it is limiting non-COVID emergency care, due to hospitals having reached a “point of crisis” during the pandemic, promoting ethicists to discuss whether the act is justified. On Monday, the Emergency Medical Services Agency for Los Angeles County issued two

DC March for Life Prayer Vigil To Be Mainly Livestreamed

January 06, 2021

In past years, about 10,000 people would fill the basilica in Washington, D.C. for the prayer vigil preceding the world’s largest annual pro-life event, held in the nation’s capital every year since 1973 when the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalized abortion in the nation.

Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine approved in UK: The good and the bad

December 30, 2020

"It is important to oppose ethically compromised science," says Ron Belgau, "but it’s also important to cheer scientists who produce ethical research."