Carlsbad, a community with about half the population of Modesto, removed invocations in 2023. In May of this year, it ordered police and fire chaplains to refrain from praying “in Jesus’ name.” ...
The New Testament, far from quietly omitting these prayers in the Psalms, quotes from them and says, for example, that they have been answered in the judgment of God on Judas Iscariot (note that Acts ...
Pope Francis, your encyclical on the Sacred Heart, “Dilexit Nos,” is beautiful and heartwarming. And for Catholics in the United States, the timing was perfect.