At the opening of the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said, "You are right to be heartbroken."
Much attention by church leaders, as it should be, is directed at new promises to take abuse...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- God gives everyone a mission, Diana George Babish said as she fielded a phone call about a dog who had been shot in Hebron. The mission God gave her is to take care of the...
WILMINGTON – Salesianum School and the city of Wilmington have finalized plans for a renovated Baynard Stadium, nearly two years after the project first entered the public consciousness. The Baynard deal is part of an overall project that also...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Catholic aid agencies were among those working to assess the needs and get relief to the island of Sulawesi after an earthquake and tsunami left more than 1,400 people dead.
Among those killed were 34 Christian students...
Every election year, the Maryland Catholic Conference surveys the state’s candidates for U.S. Congress and the Maryland General Assembly on their positions regarding issues of interest to Catholics.
The responses of the Democratic and Republican candidates whose districts are in...
WASHINGTON — Longtime baseball writer and broadcaster Tim Kurkjian has called it “the greatest baseball story ever told.” And one of its central characters is a Catholic who never played an inning in the big leagues, but got to...
NEW CASTLE – Ursuline's field hockey team has been winning fairly comfortably margins this season, but when the Raiders were tested by St. Georges on the afternoon of Oct. 2, they responded. Five minutes after the Hawks pulled even,...
OTTAWA, Ontario — New sexual abuse policies that Canada’s bishops have vowed to implement will focus on prevention but will not include a mechanism to censure a bishop who commits or covers up an offense.
More than 80 bishops and...
WASHINGTON -- With Pope Francis midway into the sixth year of his pontificate, the percentage of U.S. Catholics who view him favorably, while still strong, is noticeably down.
And, compared to a January poll by the Pew Research Center that...
VATICAN CITY — Christians have guardian angels to encourage and guide them so they won’t become sluggish on their journey in life, Pope Francis said.
Without the guidance of angels, men and women who become settled in their ways and...