After decades of legal disputes, delays and competing claims, Ukraine's Roman Catholic community has received the right to use Kyiv's historic St. Nicholas Church for the next 50 years, under an agreement signed with the state.
The church, a national...
From the beginning of the Church, the Holy Spirit has led the disciples of Christ to walk in boldness and in truth. Yet today, many young Latinos in the United States struggle to see themselves as part of that...
Q: Is confession required for obtaining a plenary indulgence if there is no mortal sin? A diocesan hermit, who is homebound, says his ministry is to gain plenary indulgences for the poor souls by various devotional practices which confer...
She has become ubiquitous on social media platforms: the middle class woman who is nearly spitting with unsuppressed rage and seemingly gleeful that she has the means to showcase it.
The woman is one of an uncountable number who display...
A congregation of Catholic women religious is lamenting the downfall of an acclaimed nursing home it once operated, after severe neglect and endangerment of residents by the current owners prompted Ohio state officials to intervene.
"This is a shock that...
Picture your favorite place to sit. A cozy recliner near the TV, a reading spot on your couch or your usual chair at the kitchen table. Remember how your body sinks into that space without a second thought. After...
CHICAGO -- The Augustinians, Pope Leo XIV's religious order, have a newly elected prior provincial for their Midwest province, a position the pope held from 1999-2001.
Augustinian Father Tom McCarthy was elected prior provincial of the Chicago-based Province of Our...
Saint Mark’s High School boys basketball coach Lonnie Wright, suspended in December by the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association for an offseason violation, had his five-game ban reduced by one after an appeal to the DIAA board at its monthly...
Surrogacy violates the dignity of both unborn children and pregnant women, reducing them to mere commodities and victims of exploitation, said Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister.
"One cannot evade reality in its essential core: This practice (surrogacy)...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Jan. 14 that the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba "in close partnership with the Catholic Church" would take place the same day -- as well...