The 2024 Men's Division I NCAA Tournament gets underway March 19 with the "First Four" play-in games, and seven Catholic schools will be playing at least once in the single-elimination Big Dance.
When Bishop David J. Bonnar of Youngstown celebrates a Mass of blessing at St. Patrick Church in Hubbard on St. Patrick's Day, it will be the first Mass at the church since it was forced to close its doors Jan. 18, 2021,
The Diocese of Camden, N.J., and related Catholic entities will fund a trust of $87.5 million for more than 300 survivors of sexual abuse in the diocese, in a plan confirmed March 14 to resolve the diocese's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The trust, which
The baptism-in-a-day event was designed to be welcoming to families that had not had their children baptized for varying reasons. It included sacramental preparation, lunch, an invitation to become involved in parish life at the cathedral and the conferral of baptism during
A survivor of clergy sexual abuse said he hopes a new podcast detailing his case will shed light on the uphill battle victims in Italy face when seeking justice from the Catholic Church.
The podcast, titled "La Confessione" ("The Confession") and premiering March
Even as a Minnesota House committee debated and moved forward a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis led the state Senate and House in prayer March 7.
"Almighty God, you have made each person
Peace in the birthplace of Jesus. After millennia of fighting, is such a thing even achievable? To this day, the Holy Land remains perhaps the most hotly contested piece of territory in the Middle East, if not the world. From its Mediterranean
Carl Bohman trains young people in his rural southeastern Indiana parish how to assist at Mass as altar servers, much like adult volunteers do in parishes across the Indianapolis Archdiocese.
But Bohman doesn't just instruct them. He serves at Mass alongside them --
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, has been named the recipient of the University of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
It will be presented at the university's 179th commencement ceremony May 19 at
High school juniors and seniors are invited to enter an annual religious liberty essay contest hosted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, along with the USCCB Secretariat of Catholic Education and Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
The contest, titled