A community of Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, has filed for a temporary restraining order against Vatican-imposed leadership, underscoring their rejection of a Vatican decision to place its governance under a national Carmelite association. The legal maneuver continues a yearlong feud with
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 sacrifice of five Catholic priests who gave their lives ministering to people in Shreveport during the 1873 yellow fever epidemic is memorialized in stained glass at Holy Trinity Church in downtown.
Their stories have been regularly recounted across nearly 150 years of
A once-every-two-decade conjunction involving the solar system's two gas giants will give earthbound observers a look at a so-called "Christmas Star" on the winter solstice.
Come sunset Dec. 21 in any time zone around the world, Jupiter and Saturn seemingly will merge into
Alena Beckwith may be only 7 years old, but she is already helping with the family business and evangelizing others in the process.
"I just like to give people trees so they remember Christmas and Jesus' birthday," said Alena, who attends St. Jude
Less than six months after the Diocese of St. Cloud filed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, the Minnesota Bankruptcy Court has approved a plan for reorganization jointly submitted by the diocese and the creditors' committee of clergy abuse survivors.
This reorganization plan, approved
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee Dec. 8 welcomed the court ruling fully restoring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but said only Congress can “take up and pass legislation granting Dreamers a path to
The path to adoption for Mandy and Keegan Wilson looked nothing like they envisioned.
"Adoption is something I wanted to do since I was in high school," Mandy Wilson said. "I have friends who have placed babies for adoption. I've had family members
The Supreme Court Dec. 3 said federal judges should take another look at pandemic limits on California churches in light of the high court's recent decision to lift similar restrictions on congregations in New York.
For now, the unsigned order leaves the state
New findings in an investigation into clergy sex abuse in Colorado's Catholic dioceses show substantiated claims that an additional nine Catholic priests abused minors decades ago.
Released Dec. 1, the findings are in a supplemental report from the lead investigator, former U.S. Attorney
Cristina D’Averso-Collins, director of the Office of Family Life Ministry in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, writes about the apostolate she helped to form, the Blue Rosary Guild, which makes rosaries for law enforcement officers and promotes praying to Our Lady