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VATICAN CITY — Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing security concerns, Pope Francis is determined to visit Iraq to pay homage to Christian and other minorities persecuted for their faith and to strengthen the commitment of the overwhelming majority of Iraqi Muslims to creating a future of peace and harmony.
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — When the pandemic forced many people to work from home last spring, business at Al's Shoe Service in Mount Prospect, outside of Chicago, almost completely dried up overnight.
CLEVELAND — Below-zero temperatures, teeth-chattering wind chills and deep snow turned the southern Plains into an Arctic landscape, forcing Catholic Charities agencies to adopt emergency measures to get people to safety.
Joseph V. Braddock, a well-known nuclear physicist, businessman and Catholic philanthropist, died Feb. 6 of natural causes at his home in Alexandria. He was 91 years old.
VATICAN CITY — As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its first full year, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments reminded bishops that the guidelines it issued last year for celebrating the Holy Week and Easter liturgies would still be valid this year.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated Mass for World Marriage Day at St. Theresa Church in Ashburn Feb. 14, which marked the last day of National Marriage Week.
WASHINGTON — Citing leading experts in the field of fetal pain, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said the proposed Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would end the "excruciating suffering and physical pain of unborn babies" by barring most abortions after 20 weeks gestation.
AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the "land of the two rivers" — the mighty Tigris and Euphrates — and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization."
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — In a Feb. 15 segment for the "Today" show's "Changemakers" and "Black Voices" series, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington reflected on his faith journey and on his own experiences with racism.
