The availability of Confession, even in Churches heavily frequented by tourists, presents the Catholic Church as a welcoming ...

The nation’s Catholic bishops are inviting the faithful to join in a novena highlighting the gift of human life, while ...

William Fuld, a Baltimore businessman who patented the Ouija board and promoted it, died in 1927 when he fell from the roof of one of his factories while overseeing the installation of a flagpole. He ...

Q: When I was evangelical, we said a “saved” person went immediately to heaven at death. In a recent homily our priest said ...

The U.S. bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty is encouraging Catholics to take part in a Nov. 15-23 novena ahead of the ...

Family members of the late Ethel Skakel Kennedy carry her casket to the front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in ...

Cross-country running at San Miguel School on Georgia Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C. fosters the physical and mental well-being of students, teaching them discipline and motivating them to ...

In a year characterized by disruption and division at the national and local levels, the normally formulaic annual dinner of ...

NEW YORK (OSV News) – A serious, even lugubrious, tone and a top-flight cast add heft to the ecclesiastical melodrama ...

Like so much of the gospels, Jesus’s encounter with a blind beggar this Sunday boils down to one simple question: “What do you want me to do for you?” If we met Jesus along the road, would we be able ...

The White House on Oct. 21 proposed a new regulation under the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, that would require insurers to cover over-the-counter contraception without cost ...