Greek Orthodox Deaconess Angelic Molen serves Communion to a parishioner in May 2024 at St. Nektarios Mission Parish in Harare, Zimbabwe. (St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess) Last fall, I had the ...

President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, at an election night party in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2024. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) We seem to have reached a ...

Dr. Darrell St. Romain, a scholar and organist, reflects on studying Gregorian chant and its potential to enrich Black ...

Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation’s Catholic HBCU, says it has reached a $100 million milestone in its centennial campaign, part of a half-billion dollar goal to be reached within the next ...

Pope Francis greets a pilgrim during his weekly audience in September 2020 in Vatican City. (Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio/ Getty) Catholic priests can now officially bless same-sex couples and ...

President Joe Biden speaking on Tuesday at The Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley in Monterey Park, California. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Ahead of an expected reelection campaign, ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s temporary suspension of the statute of limitations for child sex abuse is unconstitutional, a 4-3 decision likely to be seen as a win for the ...

Fr Thomas James, SVD, a longtime educator, pastor, and administrator, died on Monday, October 28 at the age of 80. He was a resident of Calcutta House hospice in Lafayette and no cause of death was ...

Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria (center left) flanked by fellow cardinals and bishops at the Funeral Mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Thursday morning in Rome. (Vatican Media) “It is with ...

Bishop-elect Robert Boxie III of Washington, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University, is seen in 2020 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in D.C. (Andrew Biraj/Catholic Standard) Fr Robert ...

A $5 million gift from former Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer will help restore Detroit’s historic St. Cecilia Catholic School and gymnasium into a long-planned youth center, local nonprofit ...

We fell in love in the summer of 1970. We hadn’t any sense of God working in us. We both were influenced by the tumultuous culture of the late 1960s in Chicago. We shared with others of our generation ...