WASHINGTON -- Bianca Jagger counts herself among the thousands of Nicaraguan Catholics in constant vigil for news about detained Bishop José Álvarez, who has been under house arrest in northern Nicaragua with 11 companions since Aug. 4.
Like other Nicaraguans...
The Naamans Little League baseball all-stars, a team of 11- and 12-year-old boys from north Wilmington, saw their quest for a berth in the Little League World Series come to an end on Aug. 12 in Bristol, Conn., with...
NEWPORT, Mich. -- As Karen Flint pulls into the St. Charles Borromeo parking lot in Newport, it's pitch black, and the sun won't rise for another two hours.
The main parking lot lights are turned off so as not to...
DETROIT -- It was 3 a.m. during a parish-sponsored retreat, and Marie Wilkie of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was in her pajamas, drowsily sitting before the exposed Blessed Sacrament in the chapel.
Wilkie wasn't very...
Q. Who is a better person? Someone who attends Mass every Sunday and receives Communion but is not nice to people (rude, insulting, doesn't help the poor)? Or someone who attends Mass sporadically but is a kind, considerate and...
Landmark legislation to address climate change, reduce prescription drug costs and establish a minimum tax on large corporations once thought dead but was suddenly passed by the Senate is being hailed by Catholic advocates.
"It's a minor miracle that it...
WASHINGTON -- Detained Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando José Álvarez appeared in a video Aug. 11, a week into his de facto house arrest by government authorities, saying that he and the companions who are with him have hearts full of...
The 11- and 12-year-old all-star baseball team from Naamans Little League has captivated the hearts and minds of Delawareans the past few weeks as it has advanced through the postseason circuit. The stakes have been raised, as Naamans will...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Whitey Ford and Connie Mack were among the first-place winners Catholic voters chose in online balloting for an all-time Catholic baseball all-star team.
Nearly 2,000 Catholic baseball fans across...
Mother of Good Counsel Church in Hazard, Kentucky, tolled its bell as Mass ended Aug. 7, while parishioners named a litany of communities devastated by deadly flooding at the end of July.
The Mass began with a candle lighting in...