For the first time since 1974, when it first began, the message of the national March for Life to participants is: Stay home.
Pope amends canon law so women can be installed as lectors, acolytes+
In most dioceses around the world -- and at the Vatican as well -- women and girls have been lectors at Mass and have served at the altar for decades.
Peace only way to face global crises, Vatican U.N. nuncio says+
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of finding solutions together.
Update: Kidnapped Nigerian bishop, driver released+
Auxiliary Bishop Moses Chikwe of Owerri and his driver, Robert Ndubuisi, were released by their abductors Jan. 1 after being kidnapped five days earlier.
Christmas is sign of God’s preferential love for the poor, cardinal says+
"The poor belong to Christ not because they say sobut because Christ said they do."
Genocide in Nigeria ‘happening before our eyes,’ congressman says at hearing+
"The Christians of Nigeria, both Catholic and Protestant, deserve attention, recognition and relief now."
Show the world the joy of faith, pope says+
"If I do not have the joy of my faith, I cannot bear witness and others will say, 'But if faith is so sad, it is better not to have it.'"
Diocese of immigrants hosts sculpture depicting movement of migrants+
Bishop DiMarzio called it "a symbol of what we want to be, what we have been in the past and what the future holds for us if we hold to our values as Americans."
Federal judge orders full restoration of DACA program+
"This is a major victory for immigrant youth, led by immigrant youth."
Almost 7,000 people out of work in Bethlehem’s tourism sector+
Virtually no pilgrims or tourists have visited Bethlehem since the outbreak began in March,
