WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several other Republican leaders in the House asked their Democratic counterparts June 22 to take up a measure introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., that would make the long-standing Hyde...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Religious Freedom Week June 22-29 is an opportunity for Catholics across the country to take a "stand for the freedom on which this country was founded: The freedom to live...
BEIRUT — Pope Francis’ meeting with Lebanon’s Christian religious leaders will “at least give a sign of hope” to the beleaguered country, said the Vatican nuncio to Lebanon.
“The situation is becoming more dramatic,” Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, the nuncio, or...
WASHINGTON — The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked the nation’s Catholics to pray for him and his brother bishops “as we continue our dialogues and reflections” in the process of drafting a document on...
VATICAN CITY — Writing to his peers, Catholics who have reached a venerable age like he has, Pope Francis told older Catholics that God is close to them and still has plans for their lives.
“I was called to become...
WILMINGTON — An era will come to an end on June 30. After 43 years, through four bishops, Deborah Fols will retire as director of the diocesan development office. Her role as the chief fundraiser has helped the diocese...
CLEVELAND -- Shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the bishops had approved moving forward in drafting a teaching document on the Eucharist, a group of Catholic Democratic members of the House of Representatives asked the bishops...
The soon-to-be tenth bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington continues to finish out his work in the Diocese of Rockville Centre (N.Y.). He celebrated Mass on Sunday at Cathedral of St. Agnes.
Bishop-elect Koenig, 64, will be ordained a bishop...
BALTIMORE -- Early in the 1995-96 college basketball season, tiny Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, upset Georgia Tech, a member of the mighty Atlantic Coast Conference.
As was his post-game custom on the road, Coach Jim Phelan called...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to be members of the Vatican's supreme court.
The pope...