It’s been five years since two Muslim extremists, swearing allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, stormed a Catholic parish in Normandy, France, and killed Father Jaques Hamel while he celebrated Mass. Calls to declare ...
For more than a thousand years, pilgrims have walked hundreds of miles through the countryside in France, Western Europe and the Iberian Peninsula to venerate what tradition holds are the relics of St. James the ...
When the U.S. bishops met for their spring assembly on June 16-18, they gave the go-ahead for two dioceses to advance the canonization causes of two 20th-century men who displayed valor and courage in wartime. ...
Commissioning “Eucharistic missionaries” is an idea that has “captured the imagination” of people involved in the planning for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ three-year initiative to rekindle devotion to the Eucharist. In an interview ...
A pandemic and an ongoing national reckoning with systemic racism made for a memorable and at times challenging first year for St. Benedict the Moor Church as a personal parish for Pittsburgh’s Black Catholic community. ...
At the conclusion of Religious Freedom Week, Notre Dame University hosted the inaugural Religious Liberty Summit on June 28-29. The event brought together Catholic and Protestant pastors, Jewish and Islamic scholars, journalists, attorneys and others ...
Serving Catholics who have same-sex attractions is a ministry that has evolved within the Church, and there is still room to grow. While some groups, like Courage International, host groups that focus on helping same ...
Father Philip Bochanski, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has served as the executive director of Courage International, Inc., since 2017. Founded by the late Father John Harvey in 1980, Courage seeks to help ...
When he was installed as the bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in January, Bishop Michael Fisher was entering a diocese that had seen more than its share of turmoil. It had filed Chapter 11 ...
A Kickstarter campaign has raised nearly $40,000 dollars to help fund the production of a new interactive children’s book on the lives of saints. Author Corey Heimann and illustrator Tricia Dugat have teamed up to ...
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