(OSV News) When his 29-year-old daughter Katie died in 2016, Deacon Edward Shoener shared a heartrending truth in the obituary: she had taken her life amid a long-running struggle with depression. "(She) fought bi-polar disorder since 2005, but she finally lost the battle," wrote Deacon Shoener, who serves at the Cathedral of St. Peter
The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has joined the chairman of the California Catholic Conference’s Environmental Stewardship Committee in lending support to the Save Our Sequoias Act, sponsored by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
In a letter to leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees, two committee chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called for increased funding for domestic and foreign anti-hunger programs—as well as for a slew of other programs—in the 2023 Farm Bill.
“We appreciate Ukraine’s closer association with Europe, not only because it will help Ukraine’s defense at this time of the unprovoked Russian invasion, but also because Ukraine will contribute much to the EU,” Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia said after the EU made Ukraine a candidate for EU membership.