Q: I am getting married and the priest my fiancé and I met with said we need new baptismal certificates. Why can’t we just use the ones our parents got when we were baptized? (Portland, Me.)
A: Baptismal certificates aren’t...
Upholding religious liberty must entail mutual respect, said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia.
On his most recent "Walk Humbly" podcast, Bishop Burbidge observed, "What we believe and know to be true is at odds with...
Our oldest son, who just finished kindergarten, loves to visit national parks and participate in their Junior Ranger programs. A few months ago he accompanied me on a trip to Springfield, Ill., where we visited the Abraham Lincoln Home...
O God our Creator, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the...
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in Massachusetts on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, according to the prosecution's expert brought in to examine the now 92-year-old.
On Thursday,...
WILMINGTON — A reception originally scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. was delayed by three hours, but no one seemed to care. After all, this group had waited three years to get to this moment.
So even though the clock...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision June 29 in favor of a former postal worker who said he was denied a religious accommodation to observe Christian precepts on keeping holy the Lord's Day by his...
By Michael R. Heinlein
OSV News
Our oldest son, who just finished kindergarten, loves to visit national parks and participate in their Junior Ranger programs. A few months ago he accompanied me on a trip to Springfield, Illinois, where we visited...
By Russell Shaw
OSV News
Noticing that some of his listeners were having trouble understanding his accented English, the African priest paused his homily, grinned at the nearly all-white congregation, and said, “If you don’t produce more vocations, this is what...
As the sky glowed a lurid orange from approaching wildfires, Stephen Morris knew what he had to do: pray -- but not alone. Instead, the intrepid director of youth ministry for the Diocese of Santa Rosa, California, arranged a...