ANALYSIS: Two last-minute decisions to deny Catholic funeral rites highlight a broader campaign for rapprochement between ...
Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption on Nov. 1, 1950. “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, ...
Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), addressed the loss of federal grant ...
The child, called Gabriel by his surrogate mother, McKenna West, was born in Dallas on Aug. 12. He was born amid an ongoing legal dispute after his biological parents, identified in court documents as ...
Archbishop Coakley is among the numerous U.S. bishops that regularly advocate against the death penalty. The Death Penalty ...
Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz, Germany, who chairs the pastoral commission of the German Bishops’ Conference, said the Vatican’s reasoning on the ban on lay preaching is, in his view, “not entirely ...
From shared meals and prayer to lasting friendships and peace of mind for parents, Centro Maria is helping young women thrive during their time in the nation’s capital. Young women gather for dinner ...
The Lilly Endowment has given the University of Notre Dame a $5 million grant to support the Department of Theology’s Master of Arts and Master of Divinity programs. “This grant connects Notre Dame’s ...
For St. Edith Stein, divine beauty is “the ultimate ground or cause of everything that is beautiful” and the remedy to the emptiness and superficiality of a world that seeks beauty without recourse to ...
This past Sunday marked the end of an era: Catholic journalist Ross Douthat wrote his final column as a staffer for The New York Times, as he departs for a new role with CBS’ 60 Minutes. But even more ...
If it’s a Wednesday in Rome, recently married couples — husbands in suits, wives in white dresses — gather at the Vatican for a special papal blessing called the Sposi Novelli (“newlyweds”). Couples ...
To pull off the unique promotion respectfully, the White Sox marketing team collaborated early on with Chicago priest Father Tom Hurley. Father Tom Hurley attends 'Pope Night' in Chicago inviting ...