National Youth Arts awards local student actors

Four local actors and two ensemble casts are turning into junior pros on stage.

Local parishes team up to help end homelessness, build hope

What one innkeeper was able to do for Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem, local faith communities do every week: offer lodging to families who seek it.

Catholic mom trio sets out to furnish new residents with dignity

St. Benedict parishioners Joyce Petrowski, Lisa Campbell and Anita Buckel — plus Petrowski’s husband Greg stepping in as treasurer — formed Furnishing Dignity, a nonprofit that provides basic household goods to pre-screened clients that come through referrals from existing nonprofits.

‘Footprints’ chronicles journey of local priest, men along Spain’s “Way of St. James” [VIDEO]

One year after 10 local Catholic men ventured to Spain, a documentary about their life-changing pilgrimage held a packed theater spellbound.

Catholic officials, others react to Boy Scouts’ decision to allow openly gay leaders

The top leaders of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting have made an uneasy peace with the Boy Scouts of America’s decision July 27 to allow openly gay troop leaders and employees to serve in their ranks at the national level.

Wake Up The World: Q&A with Fr. David Halm, CSC

Pope Francis declared that a Year of Consecrated Life be celebrated throughout the world, a time dedicated to the faithful whose vows of poverty,...

Aprende en español at Benedictine University

Benedictine University at Mesa is offering academic degrees for students eager to be part of an increasingly bilingual workforce.

Priests, seminarians to face off in basketball tourney [VIDEO]

What do a basketball tournament and a vocation to the priesthood have in common? They are both chances to create a “slam dunk” for the Lord.

Franciscan flavor of Laudato Si’ points to catechesis of ecology

Pope Francis is calling on Catholics, as well as all people of good will, to look at humanity’s relationship with the earth and how that affects the most vulnerable among us, say local theologians.

Catholic businesses fear backlash after Supreme Court decision redefining marriage

Catholic voices offered a decidedly different take for the secular media on the topic of marriage.