NRB chair urges bishops to continue focus on healing for abuse...
By Dennis Sadowski
Although major steps have been taken to help achieve healing and reconciliation with survivors of clergy sexual abuse, much work remains ahead...
Bishops debate how long to discuss proposal to draft Communion document
By Dennis Sadowski
Moments after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened their spring general assembly June 16, a debate on whether to allow unlimited...
USCCB President to Bishops: Take Gospel to Troubled People During Pandemic
By Dennis Sadowski
CLEVELAND (CNS) — Admitting that people’s faith in God “has been shaken” by the pandemic and related economic turmoil, Los Angeles Archbishop...
Birmingham Diocese Helping 60 Families After Spring Tornadoes
by Dennis Sadowski
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, is working with at least 60 families whose homes sustained damage in a spring...
Children’s Book Chronicling Saints’ Lives Shows They Were ‘Relentlessly Human’
By George P. Matysek Jr.
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Serenely peering out from stained-glass or standing atop pedestals while piously presenting the instruments of their martyrdom,...
Priest Plans to Auction Coveted Baseball Cards to Aid Low-Income Students
By Dave Hrbacek
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — A baseball card collection worth thousands of dollars was a split second away from being dropped into...
Knights seen as ‘poised’ to lead way to recovery, renewal as...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — The new CEO of the Knights of Columbus said the international fraternal organization’s members “are poised to lead the...
Keep Fighting, Pro-Life Advocates Told in Virtual March for Life
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although the 2021 March for Life was far different from the previous 47 annual marches to protest the Supreme...
Bill to codify Roe called one of most ‘extreme’ abortion bills...
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, introduced in the U.S. Senate and House June 8 and currently moving...
Are increased vaccinations a genuine sign of hope this Easter?
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) — It’s been said before, in different ways, in different contexts: “the beginning of the end,” “light at the end of...