NOGALES, Mexico -- Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, grew emotional talking about the harrowing stories she heard from immigrants about the life they left behind to seek refuge in the United States.
"The suffering...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- As attacks on Catholic clergy continue and anti-government protesters are besieged by Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries, the bishops said they would pray an exorcism prayer.
The bishops said July 20 would be a day of prayer and...
NEW YORK -- A front-page New York Times article published July 16 detailed the alleged abuse of two seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, by then-Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick in the 1980s that resulted in settlements to...
EMMITSBURG, Md. -- Counting on her fingers to keep track of points in an ice-breaker game she was playing with a young woman at the Fiat Days discernment retreat, an aspirant for the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco...
By HOSFFMAN OSPINO
Catholics in the United States have excelled in developing amazing structures and resources for pastoral leadership formation at all levels in seminaries, houses of formation, colleges and universities, pastoral institutes, online programs and catechetical formation initiatives, among...
By GREG ERLANDSON
My wife and I moved from the Midwest to the East Coast a few years ago. There was a predictable amount of culture shock for both of us in leaving the manifest blessings of the Midwest: Housing...
I stood at the desk in my college apartment, holding a box of birth control pills. As I read the instructions, the lengthy list of side effects made me hesitate.
I had friends who experienced weight gain, mood swings, loss...
The Catholic Church's teaching on responsible parenthood is often overlooked, or simply unknown.
Pope Francis memorably countered popular misconceptions about the church's sexual teaching in 2015 aboard a flight when he bluntly said, "Some people believe that -- pardon my...
Fifty years after its promulgation, the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" has been labeled "prophetic."
Pope Paul VI understood that the quality of marital and parental love has social consequences.
Among other topics, the encyclical spells out the church's teaching on responsible parenthood.
It...
VATICAN CITY -- World War I and its aftermath changed the map of Europe, but also dismantled the notion of the "state church" in a way that forced the Catholic Church to discover again the authentic meaning of mission,...