President Joe Biden called a March 27 shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, "sick," "heartbreaking" and "a family's worst nightmare," in remarks from the White House. The president called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone responded to comments made by former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on March 23 in which the Catholic Democrat, who represents San Francisco in Congress, defended her public position on abortion.
At a March 25 liturgy on the Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord celebrating the Blessed Virgin Mary’s “fiat” to become the mother of God, four women at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis gave their “yes” to serve Christ their bridegroom and his Church as consecrated virgins.
The Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle at one of its parishes, where Communion hosts seemingly multiplied during a March 5 Sunday Mass.
Officials of the Nashville Diocese called news of a morning mass shooting and loss of life at a private Christian school in the city heartbreaking and “deeply sad and shocking" and urged prayers for the victims and their families.
There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment that almost everyone -- perhaps with the exception of Big Tech companies themselves -- agrees is increasingly dangerous for kids.
Bishop-elect Michael Izen’s episcopal ordination is approaching, and Joe Conlon has been preparing. He will help broadcast the ceremony on cable television and livestream from the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
Growing up in a town of 10,000 and a stone’s throw from one of the city’s five lakes, Bishop-elect Michael Izen learned to waterski with his older brother, Paul, behind a neighbor’s boat. He loved to play basketball and football and was eager to burst out the door to do those things — after the nightly family rosary.
"It's boring to talk to priest," Pope Francis said with a smile as he began an upfront and informal conversation with 10 young people in Rome on their questions about faith and issues within the church.
Two new alternatives to burial and cremation fail to comply with the Catholic Church's teaching on respect for the bodies of the dead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine said.
Parishioners and school families at St. Therese in Deephaven hit a 1 million-meal milestone March 15 while packing meals for Coon Rapids-based Feed My Starving Children.
