3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1738+ words) If Bishop Robert Paul Boxie was selected to become a bishop just because he is Black, he said he is comfortable with that. “Some people may believe I’ve been selected, picked, because I’m Black,” he said in an interview with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (628+ words) Catholic campus ministers from across the United States gathered at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., from Aug. 3-6 for the 26th annual LAUNCH conference held by the Catholic Campus Ministry Association. That association was founded in 1969 as a successor organization…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (314+ words) Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to follow the example of its namesake by giving witness to their faith through serving the poor. “Saint Vincent de Paul demonstrated that prayer and social justice…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (469+ words) There are many opportunities for Catholics across the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to observe this year’s Season of Creation, which will begin on Sept. 1 (the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation) and end on Oct. 4 (the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (365+ words) Pope Leo XIV said Aug. 24 that recognizing Jesus in the face of each person with disabilities helps to advance society. In a meeting with the Marsodeto Federation, a Spanish nongovernmental organization that supports people with cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (927+ words) Celebrating the Opening of Schools Mass Aug. 24, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy thanked educators in schools across the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, “for all you do to form the hearts of our young people,” and he prayed God would bestow…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (642+ words) Singing and playing music during the liturgy is an integral and necessary part of the celebration, which means it is much more than something “decorative,” Pope Leo XIV said. “In the liturgy, to sing and to play music means to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1079+ words) When Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis, attention will rightly fall on the celebrated television preacher whose broadcasts brought Catholic teaching into millions of American homes. But for almost two decades, behind Archbishop Sheen’s extraordinary reach stood…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) Pope Leo XIV has appointed three U.S.-based consultors, all with ties to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. They are among a dozen newly named consultors to the Vatican department created…...