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Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal expenditures for prevention and assistance programs across the federal government.
Migrants rescued from the Mediterranean were taken to shore in Malta Jan. 9 after being kept at sea while European nations argued over who was responsible for them.
The Virginia Catholic Conference — the public policy agency of the Commonwealth’s Catholic bishops and their two dioceses — will pursue the initiatives described below during the 2019 Virginia General Assembly session, which began Jan. 9.
A member of the committee organizing Pope Francis' February summit on the sexual abuse crisis said the meeting should include discussing ways to hold bishops accountable for handling cases correctly.
Five men will be ordained by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge to the permanent diaconate Jan. 12 at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington at 11 a.m.
Local singers describe their pilgrimage to Rome as faith-filled and ‘life-changing.’
With so much of our lives concentrated on work, personal and family responsibilities, and the inevitable detours to our carefully planned calendars, the arrival of Sunday Mass can sometimes find us breathless and far from spiritually or otherwise prepared to deeply participate in the liturgy.
The Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus said senators have no business questioning a federal judicial nominee's membership in the Knights over its support for church teaching on abortion and same-sex marriage.
Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz will deliver a keynote address at the 2019 Religious Freedom Day ceremony in Fredericksburg Jan. 13.



Baptism is lifelong commitment
The baptism of Jesus is the final feast day of the Christmas season, but it seems out of place.