VATICAN CITY — When people ask why the Vatican has an observatory, one Jesuit priest says it’s because it cannot afford a particle accelerator.
The nerdy quip by the Vatican Observatory’s vice director, Jesuit Father Paul Mueller, has become his...
VATICAN CITY — Australian Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney used his speech at the Synod of Bishops to formally apologize to young people for all the ways the Catholic Church and its members have harmed them or let them...
LAS VEGAS — This last year “has been a time of unthinkable pain and raw emotion for the Las Vegas community and for families devastated” by the mass shooting of Oct. 1, 2017, Bishop George L. Thomas said at...
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
1) Gn 2:18-24
Psalm 128:1-6
2) Heb 2:9-11
Gospel: Mk 10:2-16
Not alone
"I have over 100 friends on Facebook!" and "I've got close to 1,000 followers on Twitter!" We've heard such claims from family and friends as they...
At the opening of the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said, "You are right to be heartbroken."
Much attention by church leaders, as it should be, is directed at new promises to take abuse...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- God gives everyone a mission, Diana George Babish said as she fielded a phone call about a dog who had been shot in Hebron. The mission God gave her is to take care of the...
WILMINGTON – Salesianum School and the city of Wilmington have finalized plans for a renovated Baynard Stadium, nearly two years after the project first entered the public consciousness. The Baynard deal is part of an overall project that also...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Catholic aid agencies were among those working to assess the needs and get relief to the island of Sulawesi after an earthquake and tsunami left more than 1,400 people dead.
Among those killed were 34 Christian students...
Every election year, the Maryland Catholic Conference surveys the state’s candidates for U.S. Congress and the Maryland General Assembly on their positions regarding issues of interest to Catholics.
The responses of the Democratic and Republican candidates whose districts are in...
WASHINGTON — Longtime baseball writer and broadcaster Tim Kurkjian has called it “the greatest baseball story ever told.” And one of its central characters is a Catholic who never played an inning in the big leagues, but got to...