The Archbishop took part in the public release of a report by Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society on the economic impact of Catholic ministries in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Realmente no podemos experimentar o entender la Navidad a menos que primero conformemos nuestros corazones a un espíritu de gratitud y entonces anhelemos el Adviento.

We can’t really experience or understand Christmas unless we first conform our hearts to a spirit of gratitude, and then to the longing of Advent.

A pesar de todo lo que puede decirse sobre la campaña 2016, el mensaje del señor Trump claramente conectó con un número masivo de estadounidenses comunes, y ganó justamente una elección abierta.

Whatever else can be said about the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump’s message clearly connected with massive numbers of ordinary Americans, and he won an open election fairly.

Of course it would be wonderful for the Clinton campaign to repudiate the content of these ugly WikiLeaks emails. All of us backward-thinking Catholics who actually believe what Scripture and the Church teach would be so very grateful.

Por supuesto sería maravilloso que la campaña de Clinton repudiara el contenido de estos correos feos de WikiLeaks. Todos nosotros los católicos retrógrados en nuestro pensar que realmente creemos lo que las Escrituras y la Iglesia enseñan estaríamos muy agradecidos.

“I would like to extend my prayerful best wishes to the local Jewish community as you observe the solemn days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.”

Combine easy access to guns with a culture that breeds resentment, self-focus, personal license and contempt for human life and the law, and what you get is what happened over the past weekend: the terrible shootings of innocent people by Nicholas Glenn and others.

The Catholic Women’s Conference provides women with mutual support in living their Catholic faith, an immersion in the truth of the Church’s teachings on women and, above all, an encounter with Jesus Christ.