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.
Archbishop Bernard Hebda recently offered a glimpse into preparing for the next few years of pastoral care in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis even as he reviewed fruits of walking in synodality through Archdiocesan Synod 2022 and Archdiocesan Synod 2025.
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.
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.
The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz," the Trump administration's controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
“Just because you’re on vacation doesn't mean your children's personalities change,” said Morgan Kavanaugh. “It’s not going to be all sunshine and roses.” The 41-year-old West St. Paul lawyer recently returned from a two-week road trip with his wife, Nicole, and their five kids, ages 14 to 3. His life is shaped by service — to his family, his parish (St. Joseph in West St. Paul) and his city.
Father Brian Lynch, pastor of St. Agatha in Coates, opened the doors to his church on Aug. 3 to parishioners and visitors from the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
