With the news that St. John Henry Newman will be declared the next doctor of the Church, speculation has swirled about what, if any, “subtitle” Pope Leo XIV might bestow upon the 19th century English ...

About a decade after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, overturning state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the justices have been directly ...

A priest is addressed as “Father” for a reason. As a human or natural father loves and cares for his children, a priest as a ...

Pope Leo XIV tops a new Gallup poll on world leaders, appealing to U.S. residents broadly in a politically divided -- and divisive -- nation.

Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh is calling for prayer, following a deadly explosion at a US Steel facility in ...

President Donald Trump said Aug. 11 he will place the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department "under direct federal control," activate the National Guard, and "get rid of the slums" in ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reportedly closed off a pathway for citizenship for immigrants who apply for green cards through a spouse or other family members, raising the prospect of ...

Catholics have lauded the recent signing of a state law that makes it a felony to procure sex from a 16- or 17-year-old minor ...

Tarah Hazard sat in a neighborhood park last year as her 2-year-old son played by himself in the sand. Hazard yearned for friendship — for herself and her son — but as was so often the case, no other ...

In his early 20s, Marcus Roesler, a parishioner of St. Francis Xavier in Shafer, said he felt influenced away from the ...

Stories about "the first 100 days" are standard fare at the beginning of a U.S. president's four-year term; the articles ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...