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VATICAN CITY — The pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions have had an impact on the Catholic Church's relationships with other Christian churches, but the effects were not all bad.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — If great minds had brainstormed how to create a podcast that would jump to No. 1 in Apple's podcast rankings, they never would have landed on "The Bible in a Year," joked Jeff Cavins, a Bible scholar and creator of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.
VATICAN CITY — Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 after the Vatican started vaccinating its employees and residents Jan. 13.
VATICAN CITY — It may seem illogical, but Christians are called to give God praise — not complaints — in times of darkness and difficulty, Pope Francis said.
On a cold December day Catholic Charities Mobile Response Center — affectionately known as the Mercy Van — pulled up to a parking lot at the St. John Bosco Thrift Shop in Woodstock in the Shenandoah Valley. Inside the shop, the truck staff and volunteers prepared to distribute essential household and personal care items to low-income and homeless individuals and families who typically show up to receive the items.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit a year ago, many people looked at religious communities whose members don’t leave their monasteries — such as the Poor Clares in Alexandria — as unusual. Fast forward to today and the “cloistered” life has become more relatable.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Jan. 12 reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in person, not by mail, as a federal judge had allowed last year due to the pandemic and the high court had let stand.
VATICAN CITY — The crisis facing many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic requires a united global response that shuns nationalistic interests and creates long-lasting solutions, said Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations.
WASHINGTON — Like many across the country, Father William Gurnee and Father Gary Studniewski watched in horror as a rioting mob stormed and ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, attempting to disrupt Congress at it certified the Electoral College vote of President-elect Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON — Just days after the siege on the U.S. Capitol, several bishops, priests and deacons across the country used their pulpits during Jan. 9-10 weekend Masses in cathedrals, parishes and converted outdoor worship spaces, due to the pandemic, to address what happened in Washington and how people of faith should respond.
