CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When Jenna Fesemyer races at the Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games, the students and staff of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois will be watching and cheering her on.
And Fesemyer, who was born...
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With our first cup of coffee one morning, we learned about the murderous earthquake in Haiti. There's the grim U.N. Climate...
Long Island’s Haitian American community is concerned about friends and relatives affected by the recent earthquake, and people want to help.
From her home in Uniondale on Long Island, Marjorie Janvier said she was on the phone with friends and...
VATICAN CITY -- Caritas Italy announced the suspension of charitable activities in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of the country.
In a statement released Aug. 15, Caritas said the "instability of the situation has led to the...
WARSAW, Poland -- Many Polish Catholics are mourning the death of Archbishop Henryk Hoser, a former Vatican envoy who helped rebuild the church in post-genocide Rwanda and later represented the pope at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The archbishop,...
SAN DIEGO -- Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego urged priests Aug. 11 to "caringly decline" to provide any Catholics who request it a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine.
"I ask that you not venture down this pathway...
Bishop Malooly, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Wilmington, was a familiar face on the Ocean City, Md., beach as he blessed the water Aug. 15 as he has for many years in the past.
Parishioners and beachgoers alike joined...
A piece of Diocese of Wilmington history has been sitting in Emmitsburg, Md., for nearly two centuries. Recently, two representatives from Catholic Charities had the opportunity to take a trip to see it.
An unidentified person came across a publication...
VATICAN CITY -- Mary's assumption into heaven reminds people that they are also called by God to eternal life in heaven through humility and serving him, Pope Francis said.
After reciting the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Assumption...
VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has been hospitalized and put on a ventilator less than one week after telling people he tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
His official Twitter account @cardinalrlburke published a tweet...