Orlando Soto smoked a cigarette and looked at his phone in a small fenced-in concrete courtyard outside Emmanuel House, an overflow men’s homeless shelter in Providence, Rhode Island. “We got TV, Wi-Fi. We watch movies on our phones. It’s alright, but it
If all goes according to plan, fans of G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown Mysteries” could soon be playing a new board game that challenges them to match wits and solve crimes like the famous priest-detective. Joe Grabowski, president of the Philadelphia Chesterton Society,
By sharing resources, Detroit hopes its ‘families of parishes’ plan allows communities to focus on mission
The Archdiocese of Detroit announced earlier this week that the first 27 “families” of parishes will come together next summer as the archdiocese continues to press forward in its yearslong revitalization and reorganization process known as “Unleash the Gospel.” The first of
A new report from Our Sunday Visitor looks at the Thomas More Society’s new “election integrity” initiative that overlaps with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in battleground states he lost this November. The lawsuits that attorneys working for
The sixth annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day, a virtual crowdfunding event that benefits more than 1,700 participating parishes, schools and nonprofit ministries, will be held this year on Dec. 1, which is Giving Tuesday. Since its inception, #iGiveCatholic has raised almost $20 million
Catholic Speakers of Color aims to add diverse voices, experiences to Catholic conferences
In attending Catholic women’s conferences over the years, writer and speaker Leticia Ochoa Adams said she almost never saw speakers who looked like her. The conversion stories she heard were poignant, but she often couldn’t relate to them. Noticing the lack of
After having time to read and absorb the contents of the McCarrick report, experts in the field of clergy sex abuse say that while it’s not perfect and leaves some questions unanswered, it still marks a significant milestone in the Church’s ongoing
McCarrick whistleblower: ‘At last, somebody was going to pay attention to what I had to say’
For more than 30 years, Father Boniface Ramsey tried to tell any Church leader who would listen about his concerns regarding former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s inappropriate behavior with young priests and seminarians. In an interview “He certainly got the benefit of the
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, M. Shawn Copeland, the first Black theologian to serve as president of the Catholic Theological Society, spoke about the nation’s failures to address the structural consequences of slavery’s lingering legacy of discrimination and segregation.
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Blessed Michael McGivney died 130 years ago. Ordained just 12 years after the Civil War ended, the humble parish priest ministered in an era before telephones and electric light bulbs. But in the 21st century, Blessed McGivney’s life still speaks to the