While most people see standing as an innovation coming from Vatican II, in fact, kneelers became common in Catholic churches only in the last 200 years. The post Why U.S. Catholics kneel during the Eucharist—and the rest of the world stands appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“I have never had a day that will stay with me like this day did,” the vice president told reporters. The post JD Vance says meeting with families of victims from Minneapolis church shooting affected him deeply appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, will visit Minneapolis Sept. 3 to pay their respects to the victims of the deadly Aug. 27 mass shooting at a Catholic school liturgy, his office said. The post JD and Usha Vance to visit Minneapolis following Catholic school shooting appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
"So much of who I am I owe to the spirit and the teachings of St. Augustine," Pope Leo XIV told his Augustinian confreres and their benefactors who were celebrating the saint's feast day in Philadelphia. The post Pope Leo talks about what St. Augustine has given him in new video message appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine