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North Carolina lawmakers enact bill barring medical professionals from providing gender-transition...
North Carolina lawmakers Aug. 16 overrode the governor's veto of legislation banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures in the state...
How one confession led to a deeper understanding of the Our...
A decade or more ago, I went to confession one Saturday afternoon at St. Peter Cathedral in Rockford, Illinois. Like many other priests, the...
Maria Lanakila Catholic Church survives Maui wildfire: ‘Not even the flowers...
HONOLULU -- "For us, it's like a miracle," Msgr. Terrence Watanabe, the Honolulu Diocese's vicar of Maui and Lanai, said about Maria Lanakila Catholic...
Archdiocese of Baltimore raises more than $50,000 for gun buyback event
BALTIMORE -- Father Michael Murphy, pastor of St. Joseph's Monastery in Baltimore's Irvington neighborhood, is not sure how much of a dent an Aug....
Catholic psychotherapist Christine Turo-Shields on mental health: ‘When all else falls...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Tom Renken leads a full and fulfilling life. The father of six is active in his parish, and he is co-founder and...
Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr says Catholics ‘are morally obliged to...
CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr has urged Catholics to reject a Nov. 7 ballot initiative on abortion he called an "extraordinary and...
Catholic Charities Hawaii appeals for donations for wildfire victims as President...
HONOLULU -- Catholic Charities Hawai'i in the Honolulu Diocese has appealed for donations to help the agency meet the housing, food and other needs...
May the Assumption of Mary lead us all to heaven —...
Yes, Tuesday, August 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven (and the Patronal Feast of the Diocese of...
Revisiting Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’: Not just a memoir of the suffering...
By Kenneth Craycraft
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang Publishing
120 pages, $6.50
In the early spring of 1945, as the end of World War II in...
Virginia priest Father Brian Capuano meets people through ‘ale-vangelizing’
Father Brian Capuano has worn many hats during his tenure as a priest: pastor, mentor, director of worship and vicar for vocations, just to...










