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Catholic Youth Ministry will move forward with its fall sports season, although a major component will be missing, and some other tweaks were made as coronavirus-related concessions. The announcement was made Aug. 11. The state still has not approved football...
NEW ORLEANS -- Kenneth St. Charles, president of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, has toiled in fundraising and development for nearly a quarter century. But nothing in his previous experience of dealing with foundations and philanthropists prepared him...
For its first 50 years, Roncalli High School in Indianapolis had the nickname "Rebels," but school officials announced this summer that they will replace this with a new name to better reflect the school's Catholic identity and mission. School leaders...
CLEVELAND — The coronavirus relief measures put in place by President Donald Trump Aug. 8 are not expected to provide significant relief to people most in need of assistance because of the pandemic-induced recession, political observers said. While rooted in...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A suspended priest in the Diocese of Sacramento has been automatically excommunicated because he continued to celebrate Mass despite being instructed not to do so by Bishop Jaime Soto, and he also has refused to acknowledge...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Scripture really came alive Aug. 9 for Catholics in Charlotte. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake originating near Sparta was felt in Charlotte a little after 8 a.m. Sunday -- just as parishioners at St. Gabriel Church were listening to...
AMMAN, Jordan -- Viewing the burned wasteland of the Beirut port, one's eye catches a grey concrete slab in the foreground. It bears this stark message scribbled by the Lebanese in black ink: "My Government Did This." On Aug. 10,...
MARTINVILLE, La.  -- On Aug. 15, the sixth annual Fete-Dieu du Teche, a 40-mile eucharistic procession by boat and on foot along the Bayou Teche in the Lafayette Diocese, will celebrate the feast of the Assumption and will be...
Diocese of Wilmington candidates for permanent diaconate were installed in the ministry of acolyte by Bishop Malooly on Aug. 8. The service included 14 candidates and was at St. Margaret of Scotland, Glasgow. Attendance was limited due to coronavirus restrictions.
VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church has always been very cautious when it comes to judging reported Marian apparitions. More than 1,500 visions of Mary have been reported around the world, but in the past century fewer than a dozen...