It’s been a month since Hurricane Michael blew its way through the Florida Panhandle. The Category 4 storm — which produced heavy rains and winds of up to 155 mph — destroyed buildings, downed trees ...
Quality church art can make the supernatural more real to worshippers, guiding prayer and making houses of worship more appealing to visitors. Gregory Cave of Cave Co. realizes this as well as anyone, as he ...
When the U.S. bishops meet Nov. 12-14 in Baltimore, the spotlight will be on an issue that has dogged them for years — clergy sexual abuse. This time, though, the bishops’ focus won’t be ...
While there are many reasons it is imperative for Catholics to continue to have faith in the Church during challenging times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia, highlights one. In an interview with ...
The scandal-plagued Catholic Church in Pennsylvania is under investigation again, this time by the federal government. In mid-October, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued subpoenas to all eight Roman Catholic dioceses ...
Since the fourth century, consecrated virginity has been recognized by the Church as a spousal union between a woman and Christ. The ancient tradition is coming back into focus after Pope Francis approved a new ...
It was, by all accounts, a historic gathering for Hispanic Catholics in the United States. The V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry, held in Grapevine, Texas, Sept. 21-23, gathered over 100 bishops and 3,000 delegates ...
Matt Plovanich will pause and pray on Dec. 1. Sixty years ago, he was among the 1,600 students and staff at Our Lady of the Angels grade school in Chicago when it became engulfed in ...
He was barely 3 years old. Wearing black shoes and a deep-blue striped shirt, he pressed his face between the 30-foot-high, solid-iron bar fence that separates the United States from Mexico. Not even his tiny ...
Father John Brenner (1931-57), a Hungarian Cistercian priest and martyr, was beatified May 1. Living in communist Hungary, Father Brenner was called to give last rites to a dying man, but it turned out the ...
