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Loyola Chicago basketball and superfan Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has big...
LOS ANGELES — By her own admission, “Sister Jean 101” could be the name of an introductory course taught at the Loyola University Chicago...
New documentary backed by Thomas More Society recounts story of Scheidler’s...
CHICAGO -- The Chicago-based Thomas More Society is releasing a new documentary about activist Joe Scheidler and attorney Tom Brejcha's nearly 30-year court fight...
As we approach the last days of Lent, we see the...
Imprisoned and in chains, St. Paul writes to his young companion Timothy, "I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept...
Even though in Rome, Dominican Father Thomas White still plays music...
ROME -- Rome's baroque churches, street-side shrines to the Virgin Mary and regular cycle of papal liturgies conjure fitting sentiments for a priest living...
German Archbishop Hesse, Bishop Schwaderlapp offer resignations in wake of abuse...
HAMBURG, Germany -- Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse has offered his resignation to Pope Francis in the wake of a report on the Cologne Archdiocese's...
Hyde Amendment and other pro-life measures would be invalidated under Equal...
WASHINGTON -- If the Equal Rights Amendment were to become part of the U.S. Constitution, its opponents say, it will actually harm women's interests...
March Madness celebrates with return of Sister Jean to NCAA basketball...
A year after it was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA basketball tournament is back. And one of the sport’s most beloved...
National Shrine in Emmitsburg, Md., welcomes treasured items that belonged to...
EMMITSBURG, Md. -- The faded black bonnet with its gently ruffled frill once framed the face of the nation's first American-born saint.
The black cap,...
Is it OK to eat meat this Friday, St. Joseph’s Day?...
WASHINGTON -- St. Patrick's Day has its corned beef and cabbage and St. Joseph's Day has zeppoles -- Italian cream-filled doughnuts.
The two feasts days,...
Almsgiving in these challenging times: ‘We trust that God will provide...
Most Catholics are intimately aware of the three pillars of Lenten practice -- prayer, fasting and almsgiving. And in these unprecedented times that have...










