Pope Francis celebrated how God’s mercy has been experienced for 800 years in a tiny stone church in Assisi.Read More

Father Logue will retire from the active priesthood at the end of August. He spent two decades as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows.Read More

The August installment of Names and Numbers includes news of major grants and a musical tribute to a Redemptorist priest.Read More

American Catholics for whom the noun, not the adjective, is determinative are thus faced with a brutal fact: our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets.Read More

More than 200 nations will participate in the 2016 Olympic Games Aug. 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro. International in scope, the gathering is awash in Baltimore angles.Read More

Pope Francis has appointed six men and six women to a commission to study the issue of women deacons, particularly their ministry in the early church.Read More

Well, friends, we are deep into that most wonderful of seasons, aren’t we? Election season. And we know what that means: half of our Facebook friends are volunteering their political opinions to the world while the other half are signing off until mid-November.I kid a little, of course. It’s notRead More

An economy that focuses on the God of money, not human beings, is the foundation of terrorism, Pope Francis said.Read More