This year marks the 160th anniversary of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the last Confederate state that continued to uphold the practice of slavery two years after it was abolished in the country -- an event marked...
A former counselor at an Ohio Catholic high school was sentenced to prison June 10 for sexual battery of a student, with prosecutors alleging in a sentencing document she had groomed others.
Emily Nutley will serve three years for having...
Members of British Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of decriminalizing abortion up to birth.
After two hours of debate in the House of Commons June 17, with a majority of 242 votes needed, MPs voted 379 to 137 in...
Although it hasn't been a holy day of obligation in the United States since 1840, the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul is as close as we can get to that, without declaring it one. The feast is observed...
WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Supreme Court on June 18 upheld a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
The question at issue in the case -- United States v....
Aston, PA—Sister Magdalen Mary Dunne, OSF, 90, died in Assisi House on Monday, June 16, 2025. She was a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years.
Sister Magdalen Mary (Mary Theresa Dunne) was born...
It’s shaping up to be a great summer here in the Diocese of Wilmington. Some big events, like the Italian Festival, have already happened but there’s more to do in the coming weeks. Check these events out:
• On Thursday,...
New Jersey's top court ruled June 16 that grand juries can be empaneled to investigate clerical sex abuse allegations in that state.
The decision comes weeks after the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, relinquished its long-standing objections to such proceedings,...
Scripture readings for The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Gn 14:18-20 Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 1 Cor 11:23-26 Lk 9:11b-17
Of all the dramatic moments from Pope Francis' funeral in April, what many of us...
On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a news update from The Dialog and a cut from John Michael Talbot's Table of Plenty album, we talk to the most prolific and beloved Catholic author of our time, Dr. Peter Kreeft.
A professor of philosophy at Boston...