Unlike many Catholics who flocked to central Appalachia in the wake of "This Land Is Home to Me," the 1975 Appalachian bishops' pastoral letter, I was a native. As a 10th generation West Virginian, I grew up immersed in...
Many people suffer the loss of "a sense of place" when a region that is like home to them is exploited or abused in large ways.
Places that afford us a sense of place have played major roles in our...
We are two months away from the 2020 presidential election. My social media, as I'm sure yours as well, are filled with extreme leftist and extreme rightist views. As usual, I find myself in an uncomfortable position, not fully...
WASHINGTON -- A whistle-stop tour? How quaint.
A pledge to visit all 50 states between now and the election? Dream on.
Press the flesh? Nope, not this time.
Kissing babies? Perish the thought.
Campaigns are now conducted in real time -- faster, if...
MEXICO CITY -- No sooner had federal forces arrested José Antonio Yépez Ortiz -- a crime boss known as "El Marro," or the sledgehammer -- than stories surfaced of his supposed generosity with the Catholic Church and devotion to...
ELKTON, Md. — Immaculate Conception in Elkton, Md., will host a prayer service for aborted children on Sept. 12, the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. The service will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the burial of the...
WILMINGTON — Jane Manley spent 30 years in Texas, the last 20 working in education. She left one of the biggest states in the union for the second-smallest, becoming the principal at St. Peter Cathedral School in Wilmington. And...
WASHINGTON -- After a hurricane made landfall with winds of 150 mph along the Texas-Louisiana border early on Aug. 27, bishops from the dioceses in its path found themselves the morning after assessing damages and checking in with others...
CLEVELAND -- Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki prayed for peace and healing at several damaged sites during a visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the scene of four nights of demonstrations following the police shooting of a Black man.
The stops followed...
ROME — More bishops are pleading with their governments to give priority to ethically developed coronavirus vaccines, but many also are telling Catholics that not getting vaccinated is a more serious moral problem than using the problematic vaccines.
Australia is...