News from Around the Nation

‘We have been subjected to criticism, derision and even death threats. We’d like nothing better than to return to our mission unhindered by the fear of millions of dollars in fines.’

The V National Encuentro opened on Thursday evening in Grapevine, TX bringing thousands of US Hispanic/Latino Catholic leaders together. Dr Hoffsman Ospino, one of the Conference organizers, spoke with Vatican News about the 4-day conference.

"Faith is very much embedded into the culture of the community," Lamas said. "In Hispanic families, God and religious practices are lived out daily. It's part of who the individual is, not separate. I can see why the specifics are higher among Hispanic families, absolutely."

Bruce Springsteen is seen Sept. 10, 2020, on a Boston College YouTube video. The singer, songwriter and musician was initially scheduled to speak to first-year students in person, but instead addressed them via a Zoom webinar link from his home studio in Colts Neck, N.J.

"We pray humbly and constantly for the virtue of fortitude, a gift of the Holy Spirit that is rooted in trust," Archbishop García-Siller he said.

"It's not bad here so far, it's just a lot of steady rain here in Pensacola," said Bishop William A. Wack, who also described the skies outside as dark. "We're hoping for the best ... and we're all hunkering down and praying."

"Living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body ... with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body's growth and builds itself up in love" (Eph 4:15-16).

Milly and Mike Pungercar, members of St. Alice Parish in Springfield, are among the approximately half-million Oregonians, or 10% of the state's population, who by Sept. 11 had received an evacuation order or warning amid raging wildfires.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided Sept. 14 with President Donald Trump's plan to end a particular immigration protection status that would have allowed people from six countries that have suffered disasters to remain in the United States.

The nation "can never forget" the 9/11 tragedy "that shook the foundations of our society and our trust in our government to protect us," - Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio

A new podcast series, "Crisis," has debuted, which examines the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. church. Produced by the Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, Washington, its 10 episodes plan to recount the history of the crisis and church leaders' responses to it.

When Laura's path was projected between Houston and New Orleans, the millions in the region shuddered. Memories of Katrina, Rita, Ike and Harvey were all too familiar and too recent.

“He wasn’t forcing cultures together with the sword, cannon or musket. He did it with his own spirituality." Fr. Peter Neely, S.J. of the Kino Border Institute

Individual rights and freedom obviously are essential for human flourishing, but human happiness depends a lot on relationships -- kinship and friendship, but also the broader common good.

The lawsuit was filed last summer against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by a Cathedral High School teacher, Joshua Payne-Elliot, who said he was fired from the archdiocesan school because of his same-sex marriage.

Catholics' hunger for a moral vocabulary in the final two months of the presidential race is unlikely to be successfully addressed by either nominee.