WASHINGTON — “The Phantom,” a new documentary on a capital murder case gone awry, is being released in theaters amid a Catholic Mobilizing Network campaign asking President Joe Biden to abolish the federal death penalty.
The online petition had already...
Sunday Scripture readings, June 27, 2021: Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Psalm 30: 2, 4-6, 11-13
2) 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15 Gospel: Mk 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35-43
God's creative hand has never stopped touching the world with...
WASHINGTON -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on International Justice and Peace praised President Joe Biden June 23 for his commitment to provide 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to...
CLEVELAND — Officials overseeing Catholic Charities-connected housing initiatives are calling on Congress to boost funding and expand tax credits for affordable housing programs that serve older adults and homeless people.
Three officials made their pitch to congressional staffers during an...
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...