By Catholic Standard
A bill has been introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates that would eliminate the statute of limitation for victims of child sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers and organizations such as churches and...
When we first began having grandchildren, they were roughly evenly divided between boys and girls. But the past 14 in a row have been girls. What are the odds?
In the general population, boys are born slightly more often than...
CANTON, Ohio -- Great Catholic Music, a free Catholic music platform with over 16,000 downloads, is partnering Irish Catholic recording artist Dana this Lent to bring listeners the hourlong program "The Stations of the Cross," airing every Friday of...
WILMINGTON — It was Senior Night at Padua on Feb. 20, and Padua and Archmere did not disappoint the capacity crowd. Brooke Emmi scored on a layup with 21 seconds to go in overtime to lead the Pandas to...
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment set the path five years ago and now a new effort by the Catholic Climate Covenant seeks to shape an intergenerational movement to respond through action and prayer to the challenges...
VATICAN CITY — When the Vatican’s wartime archives open to researchers March 2, it will be just the start of what should be a long, slow process of studying, analyzing and publishing findings, said the Vatican’s archivist and librarian.
“We...
By SHANNEN DEE WILLIAMS
When asked to offer examples of the church’s faithful whose experiences are essential to our understanding of American Catholic history, there is one black woman’s story that I always tell.
The extraordinary journey of Anne Marie Becraft,...
NEW CASTLE — A Lenten Revival, presented by the diocesan Ministry for Black Catholics, drew a crowd to Our Lady of Fatima Church in New Castle for three days in mid-February. Father Robert Seay, a Franciscan friar, led the...
PHILADELPHIA -- Archbishop Nelson J. Perez placed a mark of familiarity on the formality of rites in the Mass that installed him as the new archbishop of Philadelphia Feb. 18 in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul,...
Sunday Scripture reading, Feb. 23, 2020: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Lv 19:1-2, 17-18
Psalm 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13
2) 1 Cor 3:16-23
Gospel: Mt 5:38-48
The extraordinary strength and grace of Josephine Bakhita
Each year on Feb. 8, the church marks the feast...