Q. Please forgive my awful handwriting. I have multiple sclerosis and also Parkinson's disease and can no longer do very well on a typewriter or computer. My question is: Why is it so hard to obtain first-class relics? (Also, do...
WASHINGTON -- The son of Ruth E. Whitfield, the oldest victim of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, told a rally in Washington June 11 that the nation needs to "lower" its weapons and "replace...
WASHINGTON-- The 20th anniversary of the U.S. bishops' passage of the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" is "not a time of celebration, but a time of continued vigilance and determination," said the president of the...
OAK ORCHARD -- The tones linger in the air almost like a softly-spoken prayer.
Parishioners of St. Michael the Archangel in Georgetown and Mary Mother of Peace Church in Oak Orchard have begun a popular handbell choir. The parish (both...
VATICAN CITY-- Beatifying 10 Polish nuns killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II, it is difficult not to think of the suffering being endured by the people of Ukraine today and the need for peace...
VATICAN CITY-- The Vatican's financial watchdog agency said that more financial transactions flagged as suspicious in 2021 than in the previous year was an indication that stringent policies aimed at transparency were working.
The 2021 annual report of the Supervisory...
He records everything in the notebook. Red flowers. Purple flowers. Yellow flowers. Ant hills. Cardinals. The one and only cactus in the neighborhood in front of the red house on the corner. My 7-year-old son Chase puts everything he...
"Trust me."
If there's one comical mistake I've made over and over again as a father, it's saying those words to my children out loud.
I still carry the guilt of the time I handed a "sweet" chicken leg to my...
BETHESDA, Md. -- Recently back home after joining his World Central Kitchen's outreach in war-torn Ukraine, Chef José Andrés addressed the class of 2022 at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda June 9.
He shared lessons he...
WASHINGTON-- Arizona's Catholic bishops and other Catholic opponents of the death penalty spoke out against the June 8 execution of Frank Atwood, just as they did for the May 11 execution of Clarence Dixon, another Arizona death-row prisoner.
The two...