Long before anyone had heard of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, Catholic schools in the United States were facing existential challenges of declining enrollment, reduced revenues and increased operating expenses. In some ways, the pandemic ...
Pope Francis’ recent apostolic letter Spiritus Domini changed canon law to permanently allow women to serve as acolytes and lectors. In a new report for Our Sunday Visitor, experts within the Church laud the change, ...
Within hours of being sworn-in Wednesday, President Joe Biden was poised to send Congress an ambitious immigration bill that would begin to undo many of his predecessor’s policies. In a new report from Our Sunday ...
On December 29, the Massachusetts State Legislature voted to override the governor’s veto of the Roe Act, a bill that proponents said would “codify” the legal status of abortion in the event that the U.S. ...
Orlando Soto smoked a cigarette and looked at his phone in a small fenced-in concrete courtyard outside Emmanuel House, an overflow men’s homeless shelter in Providence, Rhode Island. “We got TV, Wi-Fi. We watch movies ...
If all goes according to plan, fans of G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown Mysteries” could soon be playing a new board game that challenges them to match wits and solve crimes like the famous priest-detective. Joe ...
The Archdiocese of Detroit announced earlier this week that the first 27 “families” of parishes will come together next summer as the archdiocese continues to press forward in its yearslong revitalization and reorganization process known ...
A new report from Our Sunday Visitor looks at the Thomas More Society’s new “election integrity” initiative that overlaps with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in battleground states he lost this ...
The sixth annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day, a virtual crowdfunding event that benefits more than 1,700 participating parishes, schools and nonprofit ministries, will be held this year on Dec. 1, which is Giving Tuesday. Since its ...
In attending Catholic women’s conferences over the years, writer and speaker Leticia Ochoa Adams said she almost never saw speakers who looked like her. The conversion stories she heard were poignant, but she often couldn’t ...