Cardinal Robert W. McElroy

“Principles of human dignity and compassion are discarded in favor of a calculus that values the acquisition of wealth, military power” and stoking divisions.

(OSV News) — Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a “genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation,” as the U.S. faces “the most profound …

Ttremendous progress has been made on so many levels” to combat the evil of racism, but it continues because “the problem is in essence a problem of the heart.”

Mary “walks with us in our struggles, not as a distant figure, but as a mother. She accompanies us in the battle and reminds us hope is stronger than fear.”

“I give thanks to all of you who have prayed to God for my healing. I believe those prayers were what led to this wonderful outcome.”

The term “liposarcoma” covers a group “very rare cancers that begin in your fat cells,” typically originating in the arms, legs and midsection.

The founders “believed that only religion could bring from the human heart a willingness to look past self-interest to a wider sense of the common good.”

“The Scriptures point unswervingly to the need to keep the poor and the powerless at the forefront of our thoughts and actions,” Cardinal McElroy said.

An incoming doctor of the church, a “Pilgrimage of Peace” and more are highlights of this week.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops …