Australian outback school named for teen on way to sainthood
An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world's first K-12 school to be named after a teenage computer programmer beatified by Pope Francis last year.
Centennial of a murder: The priest, the Klan and a wedding remembered
Irish Father James E. Coyle faced prejudice and threats and ministered during the height of the Spanish flu pandemic. One hundred years ago, he was shot and killed by a Protestant minister in Birmingham, Alabama.
Man is on a quest to unearth Minnesota’s first Catholic chapel
On the side of U.S. Highway 61 near Frontenac State Park sits a limestone historical marker surrounded by prairie grasses on the edge of an old oak forest.
With God’s help, couple says, they found each other after being widowed
The pews were packed with friends and family at St. Joseph's Church in upstate New York as Joanne McKeon and Ray Germain stood at the altar on their wedding anniversary, holding hands and smiling at each other, set to renew their wedding vows.
Ugandan Catholic leaders work to reduce violence against women, girls
Lying in her hospital bed, Grace Namakula, 39, writhed in pain as she explained how her husband beat and seriously injured her following a domestic dispute.
Catholic Charities embarks on new affordable-housing project in central Phoenix
Catholic Charities Community Services is embarking on a new 300-unit residential development in central Phoenix.
Nuncio urges young people in vocational discernment to realize their gifts
At vocational discernment gathering of the Neocatechumenal Way in the U.S. this summer, over 10,000 participants were encouraged to realize that they have "something to do so that the church may become the church."
L.A. volunteers say end to Masses for migrant children is bittersweet
Since April, the Long Beach Convention Center has housed migrant children with nowhere else to go, while authorities searched for adult family members and sponsors in the country.
Street Masses bring Catholic Church to the people in Chicago neighborhood
For the neighbors who came out for a recent street Mass in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, blessings abounded.
Catholic university presidents with COVID-19 urge all to get vaccinated
Two fully vaccinated Jesuit university presidents who recently tested positive for COVID-19 have spoken out about their experience as an urgent reminder of the need to get vaccinated.
