Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Connecticut, who is automatically succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Christopher J. Coyne.
Archbishop Blair is 75, the age at which canon law requires bishops to submit their resignation to the pope.
As the nation struggles to fight a pandemic and address social strife and racial injustice, the Catholic media have the important task of presenting news truthfully and in light of the Gospel values taught by the church, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of
A Kickstarter campaign has raised nearly $40,000 dollars to help fund the production of a new interactive children’s book on the lives of saints. Author Corey Heimann and illustrator Tricia Dugat have teamed up to publish “Light of the Saints,” which will
When they gather virtually for their annual spring assembly June 16-18, the U.S. bishops will be asked to approve the drafting of a formal statement on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Catholic Church.
They also will be asked
A June 7 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that hundreds of thousands of immigrants with a temporary immigration status cannot apply for a more permanent way to remain in the country if they first entered without authority to do so.
The unanimous ruling
Ahead of the bishops' spring assembly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, to help implement a planned multiyear National Eucharistic Revival.
Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, USCCB general secretary,
Not a day goes by that identical twins Luke and Ben Daghir don't get confused for each other.
It's probably even more confusing now since Luke and Ben, both graduate seminarians, wear black shirts with white clerical collars.
"We've gotten so used to it,
You could say Cardinal Justin Rigali has had an altar seat to Catholic Church history.
From his youth in Los Angeles to assisting at the Second Vatican Council to a stint in Madagascar to serving four popes, and to being the shepherd of
After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia.
Even though she
Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in
A group of Catholic evolutionary biologists, astrochemists, astrophysicists, theologians and astronomers will gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend to discuss a topical scientific issue in high-level government circles: Extraterrestrials, advanced alien civilizations and UFOs. The conference is “quite timely” said Stephen M.