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Ivan D. Soltanovsky officially began his mission as ambassador to the Holy See, four months after his predecessor left Rome. Soltanovsky, 68, presented the letters to the pope Sept. 18 at the Vatican, and also met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Hispanics revitalize parishes and keep cities alive, clinging to their faith in God, their family and the church, which they see as a fiesta, according to Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjívar. "As Hispanic Catholics, we have much to
HOUSTON (OSV News) -- On Sept. 13, a federal judge declared unlawful a revised version of a program offering protection from deportation to immigrants brought to the country as children without authorization. The decision was criticized by Catholic leaders, who have long
ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) -- A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on campus at St. Catherine University, a Catholic university in St. Paul. Keanu Labatte, of Granite Falls, has been charged with three counts of
Surrender was never an option for Carolina Muñoz.
As a fighter standing exactly 5 feet tall, her opponents have always been bigger than her. As a youth minister at Our Lady of Mount Virgin Church in Garfield, many of the teenagers in her
Autumn Marlow, 17, never even boarded a plane before she took her place in the pilot's seat of a four-seat, single-engine Cessna 172 and flew over the Chesapeake Bay.
Her opportunity came as a result of Deacon B. Curtis Turner's idea to offer
When the Ulma family beatification takes place Sept. 10 in Markowa, Poland, it will be an unprecedented event in many respects. For the first time in church history, a child born during the murder of the mother will be beatified, along with
In 1838, Jesuit priests sold 272 enslaved men, women and children, most of whom were forced to leave the religious order's Maryland farms and were transported by boat to plantation owners in Louisiana.
Proceeds of the sale fortified the future of Georgetown College
Cardinal Gregory of Washington blesses new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center at Howard University, one of the nation's oldest historically Black universities.
After meeting virtually for some time, organizers of the National Eucharistic Congress meet in person in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium, where in less than a year tens of thousands Catholics will gather for the closing Mass of the historic event --