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Retired FBI official James Bogner was recently named chair of the National Review Board, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' consultative safe environment body established in 2002 under the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," also...
PIKE CREEK — For the past five years, Table of Plenty Outreach has been providing emergency assistance to people in the Pike Creek area from its home at Community of Christ Church on Milltown Road. The organization will now...
LONDON -- Prominent Catholics have joined church leaders in condemning a wave of riots across the United Kingdom, while also urging greater understanding of current social grievances. "The orchestrated violence seen on British and Northern Irish streets is an expression...
VATICAN CITY -- Seven priests detained by police and paramilitaries in Nicaragua in early August have been exiled to Rome and arrived safely, the Vatican confirmed. The seven priests -- belonging to the dioceses of Matagalpa and Estelí -- were...
They're among the tiniest of God's creatures -- fruit flies. While many think of them as a particularly pesky annoyance, for David Ronderos -- a biology professor at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota -- and his aspiring...
Q: I am baptized Catholic and was married in a Catholic church. Then I was divorced and remarried in a Methodist church. She is a baptized Methodist. Then she recently did RCIA and joined the Catholic Church. How...
Every summer, my family would make a highly anticipated weekly trip to the local public library to check in on our progress for the summer reading program. The librarians would open a treasure box of prizes to reward us...
He gazes from his portrait with steely determination, one eyebrow raised. I look at the picture of my great-grandfather, an exile from the Irish famine, and I lift one eyebrow to match his. I feel close to him, even though...
HONOLULU -- The devastation brought by the wildfires in West Maui last year is unmatched in recent history. The death toll from the blaze that tore through Lahaina on Aug. 8, 2023, stands at 102. Thousands of people continue to...
WASHINGTON -- In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, the number of abortions in the United States have increased, even as some states implemented near-total bans on the procedure, according to...