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Bishop Michael F. Burbidge celebrated solemn vespers and the conferral of papal honors for Msgrs. Robert E. Avella, John C. Cregan and Stanley J. Krempa at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington May 6.
War, famine and gang violence have created the largest global refugee population since World War II, yet the U.S. has drastically cut the numbers of refugees it will accept, causing the reduction and closure of Catholic resettlement programs nationwide.
Jesuit Father Patrick Conroy, chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives who said he had been forced to resign, was reinstated to his post by House Speaker Paul Ryan May 3.
In front of a small crowd of cabinet members and religious leaders at the White House Rose Garden May 3, President Donald Trump announced, and then signed, an executive order giving faith-based groups a stronger voice in the federal government.
Father Joseph Francavilla has served at Holy Transfiguration, one of five Eastern Catholic parishes in the Washington area, for the past 47 years.
A cardinal in the Central African Republic warned against revenge after a priest and at least 24 lay Catholics were killed during a gun and grenade attack on a Mass in the country's capital.
p class="Body">Daisy Baez walks along the rows of barns on the backside of Churchill Downs before day breaks on a Wednesday two weeks before the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, the world's most famous horse race.
p class="Body">Pope Francis' new exhortation is a call to holiness in today’s world, which he notes is “not meant to be a treatise on holiness” but rather a “call to holiness in a practical way for our own time with its risks, challenges and opportunities.” He reminds us that, “the Lord has chosen each one of us to ‘be holy and blameless before him in love’ ” (Eph 1:4), and to “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven” (Mt 5:12) just as Jesus told the crowds on the Sermon on the Mount.
12 Rules is categorized as “psychology — self-help,” not theology. Though Jesus’ words season the book, 12 Rules pushes no faith perspective.


