Jesuit professor and editor Father Drew Christiansen dies (CNS) Jesuit Fr. Drew Christiansen, a professor at Georgetown University and formerly head of the U.S. bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace, died early April 6 in Washington. He was 77. Christiansen had been battling recent health issues, but no cause of death was released. The year 2022 marked his 50th year as a priest, and his 60th year as a Jesuit…

First class relic of Blessed Carlos arrives in U.S. (CNS) Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, Italy, brought a first-class relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis to a Catholic high school on Long Island April 4 as he began a five-day tour with the relic. Blessed Acutis, an Italian teen who died of leukemia in 2006 and was beatified in 2020, is entombed in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi. The 15-year-old’s use of technology to spread devotion to the Eucharist prompted Pope Francis to hail him as a role model for young people today…

As three feasts converge, Holy Land Christians hope for peace, tourism (CNS) With pandemic restrictions almost fully lifted, churches and shopkeepers alike are hopeful that the streets of Jerusalem will fill up once again as Easter, Passover and Ramadan converge…

New report documents atrocities in Ethiopia (CNS) Some Catholic church sources from Ethiopia have corroborated a report by two international human rights groups detailing widespread abuses in the western part of the Tigray region. The Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International report was published April 6, days after the government announced a humanitarian truce to allow relief aid to reach thousands of local people at risk of starvation. Catholic officials in Addis Ababa welcomed the cease-fire, even as the fighters — the Tigray People’s Liberation Front — agreed to uphold the cease-fire…

Meet the new rector of the NAC (Vatican News) After giving his own Fiat of his yes to lead the NAC for US seminarians and priests in Rome, Monsignor Thomas Powers will return to the Eternal City after serving the faithful of Bridgeport, Connecticut…