Group asks Biden administration to step up reunification of border families
An interfaith collection of religious activists is asking the Biden administration to step up the pace of family reunification to remedy the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that separated an estimated 5,500 immigrant children from their families by invoking criminal proceedings against their parents.
Catholic educators share unexpected lessons of teaching in pandemic
No one has to tell Catholic school teachers how different this past year has been.
After a too-long Lent, cardinal gives ideas for an extended Easter season
After what feels like "a truly trying Lent of 400-plus days" because of the coronavirus pandemic, Christians need to "envisage and embrace" a season of Easter faith and hope that goes beyond the traditional 50 days, said Cardinal Michael Czerny.
Pandemic will never deter care for the fragile, religious orders vow
Leaders from dozens of religious orders dedicated to providing health care services and residential homes for the elderly and the disabled reaffirmed their commitment to continue serving the most vulnerable as the global pandemic continues.
Pope ‘moved’ by registry of nighttime adoration he attended
Pope Francis said he was "moved" by a photo of an old registry that showed his participation as a young man at sessions of overnight eucharistic adoration at a basilica in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Solidarity needed to reduce debt of poor nations, pope tells World Bank
Poor countries cannot be expected to recover from the current financial crisis if the world returns to an economic model in which a small minority of people owns half of the world's wealth, Pope Francis said.
Scholar urges Catholics to have courage to speak out against Equality Act
Catholic scholar and legal expert Ryan T. Anderson warned that if the Equality Act is passed by the Senate and signed into law, it would significantly impact women's privacy and safety, genuine equality, medical practices and religious liberty.
Once again, Catholic agencies step in to help minors at the border
As the U.S. took in almost 19,000 migrant children, labeled "unaccompanied minors," in March, faith-based organizations such as Catholic Charities throughout the U.S. have been doing their part to help.
New Catholics describe their road to the faith, how it ‘just felt right’
Everybody has a story. But not every group of people going through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults together has traveled such varied paths to the Catholic Church as those who prepared for the Easter Vigil this year at St. Mary and St. Michael parishes in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Loving the church, student with Down syndrome becomes Catholic at Easter
The chapel is the centerpiece of the new St. Paul VI Catholic High School campus 32 miles from the nation's capital.
