Peru’s bishops pleaded for peace as violent protests against the country’s current president and legislature have claimed the lives of dozens of people.
Less than 48 hours after 11 people were killed and nine more injured at a dance hall Jan. 21 in Monterey Park, California, seven more people were shot and killed at two different landscaping nurseries Jan. 23 near Half Moon Bay, California,
Retired Bishop Matthew H. Clark, shepherd of the Diocese of Rochester for more than 33 years, died early Jan. 22 at the Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse in Pittsford following a period of declining health. He was 85.
"United as a diocesan family,
Montse Alvarado, vice president and executive director of Becket, the Washington-based religious liberty firm, has been named president and chief operating officer of EWTN News Inc., the EWTN Global Catholic Network announced Jan. 23.
According to a news release, Avarado in her new
The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, led by Polish Cardinal Krajewski, spent $2.2 million (2 million euros) in 2022 for humanitarian help in Ukraine, the papal almoner told OSV News. "Another 2 million (euros) is waiting in reserves for that purpose,
"With the whole family of God here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, I am praying for the victims of this violence," Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a statement following a mass shooting that left 10 people dead and
Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates descended upon the nation's capital for the 50th March for Life Jan. 20 -- the first national march since the overturn of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that initially prompted the annual
The hundreds of teens and young adults from across the Archdiocese of Washington who gathered Jan. 20 prior to the annual March for Life at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington were urged to be "witnesses to life, witnesses
Sponsored by the Sisters of Life and the Knights of Columbus, the morning gathering drew some 4,200 people -- most of them teens and young adults -- for a program of prayer, worship music, and personal testimonies that concluded with Eucharistic adoration
The pro-life movement has "much to celebrate" because Roe v. Wade "is no more," said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, in his homily Jan. 19 for the National Prayer Vigil for Life's opening Mass at the Basilica of the National