Christians sometimes actually live like Christians; it benefits everyone

This is the question Catholic bishops are asking one another, according to Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. is “what is your number?” He was quoted in a New York Times pieces covering the mystery of consistently new, and young, Catholics, people coming into the Church at Easter time. Easter marks 1,755 new sheep in his flock this year, which continues from last year’s 1,566, “which had already been the highest number in at least 15 years, according to the archdiocese’s records,” the Times featured. Throughout the country, there are similar increases.

(AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination but said it did not have to reveal any employee’s affiliation with a specific group.

Now is a good time to pray for peace in the Middle East

The Scriptural mandate, “pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” seems appropriate given recent events in Iran: the U.S.-Israeli strikes and especially the demise of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. When violence explodes in one area of the Middle East, the whole region can become a powder keg. And there are innocent casualties.

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