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Incoming Diocese of Buffalo Bishop Michael W. Fisher emphasizes healing a...

WASHINGTON -- Nobody said it was going to be easy in being placed in charge of a diocese where "60 Minutes" did...

Catholic university professors weigh in on what Democrats’ Georgia wins mean...

WASHINGTON -- The wins by Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, in the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia...

Catholic leaders mourn Capitol violence: ‘The Gospel itself is a full-throated...

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referenced the Epiphany, St. Francis of Assisi, and also uttered a prayer as the House of Representatives reconvened...

Catholics still number 30% of incoming U.S. Congress, according to Pew...

WASHINGTON — Catholics, although they make up about 20% of the U.S. population, remain at 30% of the new Congress, according to a Jan....

U.S. church leaders offer pandemic financial forecast: Mostly cloudy, some rays...

WASHINGTON -- The signals were clear at the start of the pandemic. No Masses, no offertory income. No offertory income, nothing to assess by...

Survey of screen usage by young people shows heavy increase —...

WASHINGTON -- Common Sense Media's recurring survey of screen usage by our youngest children was issued Nov. 16. What shouldn't be surprising is that children...

U.S. bishops unveil plan to address Biden administration, policies in conflict...

WASHINGTON -- Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit will head up a special working group of the U.S. bishops to address issues surrounding the...

U.S. papal nuncio Archbishop Christophe Pierre tells U.S. bishops to beware...

WASHINGTON -- With the U.S. bishops conducting their annual fall general meeting virtually, the papal nuncio to the United States told them they must...

Local, national news coverage of Theodore McCarrick sex abuse report shows...

WASHINGTON -- News coverage of the Nov. 10 release of the Vatican's long-awaited report on how former cardinal Theodore McCarrick managed to rise through...

Fundraising for Catholic entities: ‘I think the pandemic is teaching us...

WASHINGTON -- Chalk up something else affected by the coronavirus: fundraising for Catholic entities of all kinds. Domestically, parish collections are down more than they...

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