Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were among 19 Americans awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on May 3.
The White House said
Visiting student program at Catholic University helps them overcome disruption of Hurricane Maria
Most Americans, 62 percent, believe abortion is a “complex issue,” according to a new poll about American attitudes toward abortion released last week by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). The best example of this complexity may be that 52 percent of
Peter Bond is a man with ideas. When he experienced a crisis of faith in 2001, he started writing prayers and printing them on cards at his family printing business. One of the things that led to the darkness was his confusion
Several times a year Deacon Bert Bliss, 69, pauses from his duties as a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis to become a hermit. In a cabin-for-one, he prays, rests and walks in nature with the Lord, who reassures him
Mark Spyropoulos spends three hours a day in music school, practicing with a choir composed of 20 men and 35 boys. The 32-year-old professional baritone from England said the choir leader sometimes has to reprove the children for not paying attention during
In March 2015, the outlook for St. Mary of the Lake Parish was grim. The parish, a mainstay of the Miller section of Gary, Indiana, since its founding in 1929, was down to about 40 worshippers on any given Sunday, and it
During a serious illness or health crisis, people often become more concerned about their spiritual well-being, yet priests cannot possibly visit every Catholic in hospitals, in nursing homes and the homebound. Lay Catholics increasingly are stepping in to provide a spiritual triage
“Even though I’m serving a prison sentence of 150 years, I’ve never felt freer,” said J.D. Langston, an inmate at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma. His freedom is knowing God. No walls, rules or restraints can keep him from God.
Buzzwords like “inclusiveness” and “diversity” rarely are paired in the same breath with “saint” or “heaven.” But at Immaculata Classical Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, those words have been woven into its fabric from the time of its founding in 2010. “We wanted
“It seems to me that private citizens shouldn’t be permitted to own assault rifles any more than … they can own chemical weapons of mass destruction. How about a little common sense in this public debate?” — Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of