Q: Is it acceptable in the eyes of God to have an alcoholic drink at a bar that was once an altar? My diocese has deconsecrated said altar.
A: I of course can't speak directly for God, but I know...
By Father James Dominic Brent, OP , OSV News
Sixth in a seven-part series
According to the Gospel of John, in his final moment on the cross, Jesus declared: "It is finished" (Jn 19:30). The words might also be translated: "It...
WASHINGTON -- A Senate subcommittee hearing held March 10 on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict access to birthright citizenship guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution examined arguments about what the amendment's language regarding "subject...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has named Father Godfrey Mullen, a Benedictine monk, as the new bishop of Belleville, Illinois.
The Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop-designate Mullen March 13. The see of the Diocese of Belleville has been...
After 13 years of daring acts of charity that made him break the law in the name of the Gospel and elevate Rome's homeless to the heart of the Church, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope's "Robin Hood" leaves Rome...
Since the start of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran, some U.S. Catholic bishops have highlighted Church teaching on what constitutes a "just war" -- with one cardinal flatly declaring the current conflict fails to meet the necessary...
Your grandparents most likely will tell you that there has yet to be a TV preacher as inspiring as the late Bishop Sheen. The Emmy-winning prelate hosted many TV specials and videos of his down-to-earth spiritual messages are available...
Sister Mary Beth Read, a member of the Ursuline Sisters who graduated from Ursuline Academh in Wilmington, died March 9 at Andrus on Hudson Nursing Home in Hastings-On-Hudson, N.Y. She was 80 and had been a member of the...
Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Ala., announced March 10 she commuted the death sentence of Charles L. "Sonny" Burton to life in prison, a move lauded by Catholic death penalty opponents.
Charles "Sonny" Burton, 75, was previously scheduled to be executed by...
ROME -- Pope Leo XIV met privately March 11 with the cardinal archbishop of Tehran after the Belgian-born prelate was evacuated from Iran amid U.S. and Israeli military strikes on the country.
Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, the Franciscan archbishop of Tehran...