PHILADELPHIA ¬ Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, installed Sept. 8 as the new archbishop of Philadelphia, offered encouragement that members of his new archdiocese will get through the “difficult moment” the local church has endured.Read More

WASHINGTON – Ascension Parish in Bastrop, Texas, has been serving as a shelter and a nerve center for relief efforts related to the ongoing Texas wildfires that have struck the state.Read More

The sights, smells and sense of quiet from the days he spent searching the burning Pentagon for bodies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack remain vivid in Bishop F. Richard Spencer’s mind.Read More

On the second day of the new semester at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Father Michael DeAscanis and fellow seminarians were taking a mid-afternoon walk in the courtyard.Read More

It appears religiously naïve and politically offensive even to raise the question of forgiveness on 9/11. But, the coincidence of two biblical readings on forgiveness this Sunday, when we observe a national memorial of terror, demands we not avoid it. Can our faith in forgiveness shed any light on what happened that Tuesday morning 10...Read More

It’s a hot afternoon in late August in Baltimore, and high-schoolers in casual summer attire and their parents are getting a tour of Loyola University Maryland.Read More

ST. LOUIS – Sheila Gilbert, a national officer for the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul for the past six years, became the first woman to head the organization Sept. 3.Read More

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Half a millennium has passed since missionaries arrived in what is now Latin America, and the region – which was then inhabited entirely by native peoples, some with complex civilizations – is now considered the most Catholic in the world.Read More