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Alexandria-based electronic giving business helps churches maintain cash flow.

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For years, the building’s façade at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg only listed its purpose — Catholic Student Center. Now, thanks to Father Christopher T. Vaccaro, chaplain and director of campus ministry, it will be named the St. John Bosco Center. 

The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration said the country's Catholic bishops are "deeply concerned" about the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow a partial ban on foreign nationals as it reviews the constitutionality of a wider ban.

Like St. Elizabeth of Hungary, her great-aunt, Elizabeth of Portugal, married young. At age 12 she became the bride of Portugal’s 20-year-old king, Dinis. Today such a match is shocking, but child brides were commonplace in the Middle Ages. Among royal families every marriage was a political alliance, and the sooner the alliance was sealed at the altar, the better.

WASHINGTON — Why do Catholics pray the rosary? The history of the rosary traces to the 13th century. It is believed that Mary gave St. Dominic the rosary to rescue the church from the Albigensian heresy. Initially, 150 Hail Marys were prayed as a part of the rosary. “The prayer of the rosary, originally composed […]