Recently, Columbia University in New York has become the epicenter of U.S. college protests and encampments demanding an end to U.S. support of Israel, now at war with Hamas following that group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on approximately 22 locations in Israel.
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Caritas Baby Hospital is now the only exclusively pediatric hospital in the West Bank serving about 50,000 children a year.
As the only medical center specifically for children, the Caritas hospital brings hope not only to parents cut off from work and
A small community of discalced Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, has reportedly withdrawn a request for a temporary restraining order against Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth and a national Carmelite association.
The nuns filed the request April 22 after receiving notice
U.S. senators expressed lingering concern about the creation of a leaked and since-retracted FBI memo that suggested some "radical traditionalist" Catholics pose threats of racially or ethnically motivated violence after a review by the Department of Justice's watchdog found "no evidence" of
The Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York, is seeking to scrap its bankruptcy filing amid an impasse with abuse survivor settlements -- and the case may lead to what one bankruptcy scholar called "a little bit of a showdown in the O.K.
"A number of the homeless will come and spend time inside the church just to get away from the cold or the heat or the rain, but they don't get engaged," Father Brendan Fitzgerald told the Catholic Review, the news outlet of
The Catholic Church has dedicated numerous feast days throughout the year to events in the life of Mary and her various titles. The following are some of the feasts of Mary in the month of May:
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.
Catholics in the United Kingdom that are part of the personal ordinariate, a kind of diocese originally set up to receive groups of Anglican Christians into full communion with the Catholic Church, have welcomed Pope Francis' appointment of their first bishop --
A former Methodist minister has apparently sought a blessing on her same-sex union from a priest at a parish within the Archdiocese of Chicago, months after the Vatican issued a document on the possibility of giving spontaneous, non-liturgical pastoral blessings to couples