WILMINGTON — Work continues at Abessinion Stadium in Wilmington on Aug. 17. The facility, which will be the home of Salesianum football and soccer, among other teams, was scheduled to host high school events beginning with a soccer game...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For B.C. film producer Natasha Howes, “Fatima” is more than just her latest screen project.
The Kelowna-based filmmaker credits the miraculous events in rural Portugal a century ago for her conversion to Catholicism and her devotion...
WASHINGTON — Most Catholic colleges and universities are no different from their private and state-supported counterparts when it comes to athletic teams for the fall semester.
No sports.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association had already announced that it was suspending championships...
CLEVELAND -- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York confirmed he has accepted an invitation from the Republican National Committee to offer a prayer at the party's nominating convention.
The convention opens Aug. 24 with limited attendance by delegates and...
WASHINGTON -- By the time of their online Zoom caucus Aug. 17, organizers of Democrats for Life knew their effort to modify the party platform language on abortion was a nonstarter.
They went ahead, anyway, with most speakers focusing on...
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Milvia Monachesi, who was elected mayor of Castel Gandolfo in 2012, said “for a moment” in 2013, “I thought I was the luckiest mayor in the world: I would have two popes.”
“But now there isn’t...
SYDNEY -- In an exclusive interview prerecorded and aired at a U.S. conference, Cardinal George Pell reminded his audience how important the church in the U.S. is for world Catholicism and Western civilization.
U.S. Catholicism "is vitally important for us...
WASHINGTON -- About 100 current and former Democratic lawmakers from several states urged the Democratic Party's Platform Committee Aug. 14 "to moderate its official position on abortion," saying many party leaders support abortion policies "radically out of line with...
ROME -- Although the number of new COVID-19 infections in Italy was creeping up in late July and early August, the country's internal affairs ministry eased two restrictions placed on the celebration of Masses: allowing choirs and dropping the...
CLEVELAND -- A Jesuit priest with a widespread presence in various media platforms and the executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobbying group, are set to offer prayers during the Democratic National Convention on its final night.
Sister...