DODGE CITY, Kan. — Denying any wrongdoing, Bishop John B. Brungardt of Dodge City has stepped away from his duties and pledged to cooperate with authorities investigating an allegation of abuse of a minor made against him.
The diocese said...
WASHINGTON — Inequities in U.S. health care have long existed, but the coronavirus pandemic has exposed them to wider scrutiny, according to Kathy Curran, senior director of public policy for the Catholic Health Association.
“Hospitalization rates are four times higher,...
It's not often you get the pope to celebrate your birthday, even if it's your 100th.
Catholic News Service turned 100 in the midst of the pandemic, so it took us a little while to get our party hats on....
U.S. dioceses are crying foul over an investigative report on coronavirus relief funding they say grossly mischaracterized the Catholic Church's finances and unrestricted cash flows, leaving the crass impression the church used the 2020 CARES Act to hoard cash.
Officials...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic school enrollment figures for the current school year -- significantly impacted by the pandemic -- dropped 6.4% or more than 111,000 students from the previous school year, which is the largest single year decline in almost...
WASHINGTON -- Catholics in St. Petersburg, Florida, will need to get their napkins ready because some barbecue from Kansas City, Missouri, is coming their way.
A friendly wager between the bishops and two Catholic schools from the dioceses of the...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 17 in St. Peter's Basilica rather than making the traditional walk from the Church of St. Anselm to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill, the...
While the pandemic has restricted Lenten gatherings, many Diocese of Wilmington parishes are still working hard to keep seasonal traditions alive while remaining safe.
The beginning of Lent typically marks the start of Friday fish frys at local churches.
Abstaining from...
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we are far more interconnected than we previously imagined.
To use the words of Martin Luther King Jr., "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a...
Am I my brother's and sister's keeper? And who are my brothers and sisters? Just considering these two familiar questions gives us the essence of the Catholic concept of solidarity. Solidarity means, in St. John Paul II's words, that,...