VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said the goals he has achieved in more than nine years as pope were simply the fruit of the ideas discussed by the College of Cardinals prior to his election.
In an interview with Argentine...
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican announced it has completed the sale of a property in London that is at center of a Vatican trial for 10 people, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, accused of financial malfeasance.
In a statement released July...
As a mother of five boys, I have spent countless nights at baseball fields, but never have I glimpsed God in the dugout until tonight.
Can I confess that I was bored by my own son's game -- bored only...
WILMINGTON — Juneteenth is not merely a celebration, but a call to action for all Catholics and all Americans, a prominent Philadelphia priest said June 29 in Wilmington.
Father Stephen Thorne, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia currently studying...
WASHINGTON -- The chairmen of three U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committees are raising concerns over a proposed rule to revise regulations governing the 50-year-old Title IX that promotes women's equality and opportunity in schools and colleges.
The proposed revisions,...
In the 50th year since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand, that same court has judged that case wrongly decided and kicked America's most neuralgic issue back to its elected representatives.
Pro-lifers have responded with...
I went to high school before Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision establishing a woman's constitutional right to abortion and an absolute right during the first trimester.
In early May, we read of an unprecedented leak of a...
Sunday Scripture readings, July 3, 2022: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Is 66:10-14 Psalm 66: 1-7, 16, 20
2) Gal 6:14-18 Gospel: Lk 10:1-12, 17-20
Maturity means seeing clearly that everything comes from the God who loves us
We are born after...
PHILADELPHIA -- Ukrainian Catholics in Philadelphia and throughout the nation are "(welcoming) the European Union's courageous step to extend Ukraine candidate status," said Archbishop Borys Gudziak, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S.
Charles Michel, president of the...
By Our Sunday Visitor
For almost three generations of Americans, abortion has been not only a constitutional right but a fact of life.
On June 24, 2022, the facts of life changed.
In voting 6-3 to uphold the Mississippi law at the...