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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, the prelate who organized and oversaw the first six international celebrations of World Youth Day.
ROME — A priest who stood in for a 15-year-old boy who he thought was going to be executed during Spain's bloody civil war will be among a group of 16 priests, seminarians and laymen who are set to be beatified in Granada, Spain.
As a public-facing historian of Black women, I have always relished the fact that Black History Month and Women's History Month are successive in the United States.
VATICAN CITY — The number of Catholics and of Catholic men and women who devote their lives to serving them continues to grow in Africa and Asia, Vatican statistics show, but pastoral ministry is still much more readily available to Catholics in Europe.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — When priests hang up their clerical robes, grab their aprons and head for their kitchens, what's cooking?
Since she was a young girl, Mary Yee was taught the Catholic faith. That knowledge came to life in a new way for the George Mason University senior as she joined more than 200 college peers and other Catholics earlier this month for two days of inspirational speakers, prayer and reflection at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax.
VATICAN CITY — Opening an international conference on priesthood, Pope Francis insisted that those who are not close to God in prayer, close to their bishop and other priests and immersed in the lives of their people are simply "'clerical functionaries' or 'professionals of the sacred.'"
WASHINGTON — Catholic school enrollment increased for the first time in two decades this school year, according to a preliminary report released by the National Catholic Educational Association Feb. 14.
CHICAGO — A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1.
VATICAN CITY — The same love that gave St. Joseph the strength to protect Jesus and Mary must inspire Christians to love the church, especially when calling out its sins and flaws, Pope Francis said.
