Catholic News

• Pope pens foreword to book on human trafficking victim (Vatican News)
  Pope Francis has written the foreword to Mariapia Bonanate’s Io sono Joy, a work about a 23-year-old Nigerian human trafficking victim. The Pope writes, “I can’t help but ask the reader a question: since there are countless young women, victims of trafficking, who end up on the streets of our cities, how much does this […]
• In Northern Ireland, government, bishops extend shutdown of churches until March 5 (Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference)
  “We once more make this decision reluctantly, conscious of the pain that not being able to gather for public worship causes for all the faithful, but in the hope that this period of sacrifice is inspired by the command of Jesus to love our neighbors and undertaken for the protection of life and health and […]
• US bishops' pro-life chairman decries Biden-Harris statement on anniversary of Roe v. Wade (USCCB)
  “Roe’s elevation of abortion to the status of a protected right and its elimination of state restrictions paved the way for the violent deaths of more than 62 million innocent unborn children and for countless women who experience the heartache of loss, abandonment, and violence,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City (Kansas), chairman of the […]
• Caritas leader calls on US, European nations to renounce 'vaccine nationalism' (Vatican News)
  Stating that vaccination is a “basic human right,” the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s federation of relief and development agencies, regretted that “around a sixth of the world population has already reserved more than half of the vaccines for their own national population.”