Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh is calling for prayer, following a deadly explosion at a US Steel facility in Pennsylvania Aug. 11 that killed at least one and injured 10, with one person still unaccounted for.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reportedly closed off a pathway for citizenship for immigrants who apply for green cards through a spouse or other family members, raising the prospect of deporting them and breaking up their families.
Tarah Hazard sat in a neighborhood park last year as her 2-year-old son played by himself in the sand. Hazard yearned for friendship — for herself and her son — but as was so often the case, no other families or children were to be seen in the park that day.
A little more than 60 years ago -- March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, intending to march a 54-mile route to Montgomery, the state capital.
For Father Fernando Mañó Bixquert, a special calling to evangelize can be traced back to Valencia, Spain. He wanted to do more of it; he wanted his parish to do more of it, too. Father Mañó Bixquert described himself as “restless,” always looking to go beyond.
Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions -- including a 3-year-old child -- taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation's long-running armed gang violence and political instability.
The 143rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus opened in Washington Aug. 5 with a call to charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism, as Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly urged members to be "heralds of hope" in a world searching for meaning.
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its commitment to nonviolence, disarmament and lasting peace, said U.S. prelates attending commemoration events in Japan.
The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities' streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.
Back in 2022, director Pierre Perifel brought the skillfully criminal, yet ultimately goodhearted, gang of anthropomorphized animals featured in "The Bad Guys," a series of children's books by Aaron Blabey, to the big screen with thoroughly pleasing results.
The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor's policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.
