This Lent, the faithful in the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, will read and reflect upon stories such as that of a 10-year-old boy from a devout Irish-Catholic family who was rewarded for doing well on ...
Theodore McCarrick, the disgraced former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, D.C., who is alleged to have sexually abused minors and seminarians for several decades, has been removed from the clerical state, the Holy See announced Saturday. The decision ...
In an era when anyone can order a book from their smartphone and have it on their doorstep within a day or two, Catholic bookstore owners like Cecilia Balog have to make do with ...
Witness to Love, a Catholic marriage preparation and renewal ministry, is launching a new program to prepare civilly married couples to enter into sacramental marriages in the Catholic Church. Mary-Rose Verret, who co-founded Witness ...
If it were up to many frustrated Catholics who follow the news, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York already would be excommunicated. Several Catholic commentators, including some bishops, have said the Democratic governor should have ...
These days, Father John Hollowell sits at his desk and pores over financial statements, trying to figure out how to cut almost 25 percent of his two Indiana parishes’ operating budgets for next year. “McCarrick ...
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, Hope, fatherhood was still somewhat of an abstraction for me. Infant clothes, onesies, diapers and baby furniture began filling the room that would become a nursery, but ...
Writing a new pastoral letter will not end racism in the United States, but Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, hopes it can be a step in that direction. “The pastoral letter was ...
Immigration, in normal political circumstances, polarizes the electorate and generates more heat than light in the national media. But, in the early weeks of 2019, the immigration issue has literally shut down the United States ...
In theory, an artificial womb could help save the lives of premature babies and even give some frozen embryos the opportunity to be born while changing the contours of the nation’s abortion debate. But as ...
