At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when face-to-face visits were difficult or impossible, many members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul relied on phone calls or electronic means to connect critical services and resources with those who needed them
For decades, St. Peter's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill has been known for providing hospitality in its parish hall to people arriving on buses in Washington for the annual March for Life.
This summer, the parish has similarly opened its parish hall doors
A reader asks: “Are there ‘statutes of limitations’ regarding confession? For instance, if I stole a candy bar as a child, never confessed it but still remember it as an adult, should I confess it?” Monsignor Charles Pope answers that when one
A reader asks: “I have made a pledge to purchase a Bible. I want to not only read it but study it intently. Should I purchase a Catholic Bible or the standard classic King James Bible? Is the King James Bible non-denominational?
Paul Gavrilyuk gets about four hours of sleep a night.
It's a wonder he gets any sleep at all. The Ukraine native and theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul is working around the clock to help his native
A trip to the grocery store is giving shoppers sticker shock over staples such as a gallon of milk.
Imagine the pocketbook pain of buying 250,000 gallons.
Southeast Michigan food aid ministries, including food banks and parish-based pantries, are "absolutely" feeling the pinch of
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party began violently vandalizing thousands of Jewish synagogues, hospitals, cemeteries, businesses, homes and schools across the country in 1938, the Church was watching. Pope Pius XI, who died in 1939, and his successor, Pope Pius XII,
Assistant editor Ava Lalor shares how a conversation with a priest about the homeless in their community has led her to take seriously how to give alms this Lenten season: “During the season of Lent, we are called to do three things
Cory Howat, president of #iGiveCatholic, is optimistic that despite setbacks in their household finances they might have because of the ongoing pandemic and now inflation, Catholics will be as generous as ever on the seventh annual #iGiveCatholic Giving Day Nov. 30.
"We believe
Frank Siller, the CEO of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, is honoring the victims of 9/11, including his brother, Stephen, a firefighter who died at the World Trade Center, by making a 537-mile walk from the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., to Shanksville,